Comment by SV_BubbleTime
20 hours ago
If you’re doing your work inside the windows machine, what protection does Linux as a host get you?
20 hours ago
If you’re doing your work inside the windows machine, what protection does Linux as a host get you?
The topic is bitlocker, and Microsoft, and keys.
With a VM running on an encrypted file system, whatever a warrant for a bitlocker key might normally provide will be hidden behind an additional layer that Microsoft does not hold the keys to.
(Determining whether that is useful or not is an exercise for the person who believes that they have something to hide.)
Isn’t it a pretty well-established fallacy that privacy only benefits those with something to hide?
Wouldn't it be easier to just use bitlocker and not back up your keys with microsoft?
Sure, the plan you outline does sound very simple. And in an ideal world, that'd be perfectly fine.
Except we don't live in an ideal world.
See, for example, the fuckery alluded to above.
Therein: Linking a Microsoft account to a Windows login is something that appears to happen automatically under some circumstances, and then bitlocker keys are also automatically leaked to the mothership...
The machine is quite clearly designed with the intent that it behaves as a trap. Do you trust it?
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