[hluska]

I’m not the person you’re replying to, but Grifball is talking about BitLocker. BitLocker is a device encryption tool that ships with certain versions of Windows (I think only Pro, but don’t trust that.)

I believe that what Grifball is saying is that if your disc was fully encrypted and you lost the ability to decrypt, you’d be in a lot of trouble. In the BitLocker case, if you had a valid Windows license, encrypted your disc and lost your license, it would be a very bad day.

As for your comments about backups, you’re correct though in this case, a backup wouldn’t be much use if you lost access to BitLocker. That would take a really serious ops failure, but far stranger things have happened.

[bathtub365]

If your backup requires the original machine to be fully functioning, it's a bad backup. If it requires complete reliance on a third party holding a key, that they have the right and ability to revoke, it's also a bad backup. You're giving them the ability to cryptolock you at a whim.

[Nitramevfank]

I know what bitlocker is, I've been using it for years.

> backup wouldn’t be much use if you lost access to BitLocker

Why? What kind of backup are you talking about? This statement makes no sense to me.