From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 1/28/2026 5:32 PM, knuttle wrote:   
   > On 01/28/2026 2:51 PM, Peter Jason wrote:   
   >> https://tinyurl.com/25umgsn7   
   >   
   > There have been several post to his original Warning.   
   > I still don't know what the warning was, and if I should get upset by it.   
      
   For a lot of people, their C: drive has been encrypted without their knowledge.   
      
   I experienced that two days ago, while testing in a VM.   
   (That's the *first* time that has happened here, for the record.)   
   A copy of 24H2 Win11 Pro, started to encrypt itself after installation.   
   I stopped it.   
      
   Depending on the encryption scheme, it can greatly increase the size of   
   backups (if the backups are done of the encrypted volume at rest ant   
   not mounted). Presumably unlocked volumes back up as normal   
   in a plaintext format.   
      
   To check your encryption status, in Administrator terminal you can   
      
       manage-bde -status   
      
   and see.   
      
   If the FBI sweep up all the hardware in your house,   
   they will be asking Microsoft for Recovery Keys for   
   anything which has Microsoft encryption on it.   
      
   *******   
      
   If you really intended to protect your privacy with   
   Veracrypt, then only you have the key, and only   
   you can cough up the materials to make your C: into   
   plaintext again. If you encrypt, encrypt like you   
   really mean it.   
      
   *******   
      
   If you take your laptop through the border, and the border   
   thug discovers encryption, he is going to assume you're   
   Matt Helm and a secret agent, and you'll be held in   
   the back room for a couple hours while they fart around.   
   This is why you want to present a lily-white image   
   while carrying your electronics across a border.   
      
      Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)