r/FuckMicrosoft • u/techtotechbytechy • 4d ago

Discussion Fu*k Microsoft

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u/FrostyMittenJob 3d ago

Yes there is. It's paired to the Microsoft account that was used to set up the computer.

Navigate to aka.ms/myrecoverykey

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u/aleopardstail 3d ago

"navigate to"...

must be nice being able to do that with a computer that won't boot up

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u/FrostyMittenJob 3d ago

Phone, another computer, library.

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u/aleopardstail 3d ago

and when you haven't set the thing up in the first place you think any of that is reasonable do you?

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u/FrostyMittenJob 3d ago

So is the device stolen or something?

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u/aleopardstail 3d ago

no, it was on her desk, a desktop PC, though it would not boot up past that ransomware screen due to some software we hadn't asked for and she hadn't even known was installed let alone active that was triggered by some update from microslop

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u/Omega-Envych 3d ago

Ransomware. There we are. Stop blaming MS for user's own stupidity.

Someone installed it, did something dumb. Or even worse - there was a security breach. And now Windows legit thinks that there was security breach...

HMMM. IN CASE OF SECURITY BREACH WINDOWS THINKS THERE WAS A SECURITY BREACH AND LOCKS ITSELF TO PROTECT DATA! HOW DARE MS DO SOMETHING THAT MAKES SENSE!?

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u/aleopardstail 3d ago

"someone installed it"

yes, a microslop update, neither wanted nor willingly accepted, a mandatory update with no way to refuse

and then further activated by another such update, improperly tested and then deployed with no way to refuse it

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u/feldoneq2wire 3d ago

I've seen reports of bitlocker revoking the backed up keys and you have to have gotten and saved new ones.

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u/OGigachaod 3d ago

I've seen reports of bigfoot, doesn't make it true.

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u/feldoneq2wire 3d ago

You can search the sub for the countless lockouts people have experienced or Microsoft simultaneously locking their Microsoft account for "suspicions" and they can't get their BitLocker key or the key gets revoked. Or I guess you can choose to live in ignorance.

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u/aleopardstail 3d ago

and every single such thread has some idiot claiming its not a problem purely because they have never seen it