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Warning: check your PC’s Windows 11 encryption feature to make sure your data is not at risk

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  • Concerns have been raised around the default drive encryption applied with Windows 11 24H2
  • This is put in place when setting up new PCs, or with fresh installs of Windows 11 24H2 on existing devices
  • The encryption recovery key is tied to a Microsoft account, and if that account is subsequently deleted or otherwise inaccessible, this can mean you lose all your data – and Microsoft doesn’t make this nearly clear enough

Some criticism has been levelled at Microsoft for not making it clear enough that Device Encryption – the lightweight spin on BitLocker for Windows 11 Home – is enabled automatically during setting up Windows 11 24H2 with a Microsoft account. (Albeit there are caveats here, which I’ll return to).

Neowin flagged up the post on Reddit which boldly carries the statement ‘BitLocker is now the biggest threat to user data on Windows 11’ in its title.

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