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Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi::The point of Microsoft's Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bi

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No one wants LGA1155 anymore anyway so it's Gucci, my i7-2600 was far past it's life span 5 years ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Speak for yourself, I'll take anything that executes code and find a use for it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The IPC just isn't good enough of those chips anymore, making them really inefficient. You'd be better off buying a modern celeron

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

A modern celeron costs like 150 bucks after a motherboard and ram, you can buy an old pc that's bound for a landfill for like 20 bucks, and they are perfectly usable for something like a nas, a tor node, or a minecraft server

Edit: 150's a bit high prolly like 90 is possible

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The old wholesale of PCs for 20 buckeroos doesn't really exist here in the UK so I never considered that