WtfEvenIsExistence ✓@reddthat.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhy do modern phones have device encryption on by default, but computers do not? Why doesn't computers also get encryption on by default?message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up193arrow-down13
arrow-up190arrow-down1message-squareWhy do modern phones have device encryption on by default, but computers do not? Why doesn't computers also get encryption on by default?WtfEvenIsExistence ✓@reddthat.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squarethemoonisacheese@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoThey do. Windows now enables bitlocker by default when you use a Microsoft account, and it saves the keys to onedrive. Mainstream Linux distros don’t do it by default but it’s an option on install, as Linux usually goes. MacOS is macOS, I’d be surprised if they didn’t encrypt it before everyone else.
They do.
Windows now enables bitlocker by default when you use a Microsoft account, and it saves the keys to onedrive.
Mainstream Linux distros don’t do it by default but it’s an option on install, as Linux usually goes.
MacOS is macOS, I’d be surprised if they didn’t encrypt it before everyone else.