Sentences with phrase «uploading recovery keys»

It's unusual that Microsoft is silently uploading recovery keys to its own servers, but it isn't actually worse than the previous status quo.

There's no way to enable device encryption without uploading a recovery key somewhere — not even a hidden power user option.

It also uploads your recovery key to Microsoft's servers, allowing you to regain access to you encrypted drives even if you forget their passwords.

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When you sign in with a Microsoft account, the encryption is activated and a recovery key is uploaded to Microsoft's servers.

(If you sign in on a domain, the recovery key is uploaded to Active Directory Domain Services, so your business or school has it instead of Microsoft.)

Your recovery key would then be uploaded to your organization's domain servers.

You can instead have Windows generate a new recovery key that will never be uploaded to Microsoft's servers.