THELOGICALINDIAN - One of Windows 10s coolest aegis appearance may be rendered absolutely abortive if you dont booty the actual precautions Disk encryption is congenital in and activated by absence on this latest abundance of Windows but a hidden action of Windows may acquiesce Microsoft to admission your encrypted data
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The Intercept afresh appear that users who login to Windows 10 with a Microsoft annual automatically upload a archetype of their system’s accretion key to Microsoft’s servers. This accretion key can be acclimated to alleviate your system’s encrypted disk, which agency that users are giving Microsoft the adeptness to admission their encrypted advice — and they don’t alike apperceive about it. This action was placed in Windows 10’s deejay encryption affection quietly, and you don’t accept an advantage to opt-out aloft installation.
This vulnerability should be a point of affair for anybody that uses Windows 10, but Bitcoiners should be abnormally weary of who has admission to their encrypted disks. If you abundance a desktop wallet or files absolute clandestine keys or seeds on an encrypted deejay active Windows 10, Microsoft could apparently accretion admission to your bitcoins. Of course, Microsoft itself burglary your bill isn’t actual likely, but what if their servers become compromised, and a abominable amateur assets ascendancy over them?
Fortunately, The Intercept put calm a adviser on how to annul your accretion key from your Microsoft account, which will anticipate your arrangement from uploading the key to Microsoft’s servers:
How to annul your accretion key from your Microsoft account
Generate a new encryption key after giving a archetype to Microsoft
By afterward these steps, you can blow a little easier; Microsoft won’t accept admission to your encrypted information, so you can be abiding your bitcoins and added clandestine files are that abundant safer.
Please appointment The Intercept and read their commodity in its entirety. Don’t balloon to appearance your acknowledgment to them for creating this adviser to accomplish your Windows 10 arrangement added secure.
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Guide and BitLocker screenshots address of The Intercept
