this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
668 points (95.8% liked)

Technology

59030 readers
3004 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
668
Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
406 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't input the key to unlock it (assuming you saved the key somewhere)?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it uses something in the hardware itself. It does have a master key, but extracting it is something of a headache, it requires a sniffer or something. But if the hardware changes, then the keys change. It was a whole kerfuffle in tech circles when it was announced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good Lord...