Wonder how the IRS treats something like this. They were worthless files on a backup disk for all these years until Claude unlocked them and now they are worth something. So while he always had them, no reasonable person would ever claim you should have to file a 709 form over them.
People who lived in a big county could have to pay fees to call people in the same county! They were called "local toll" calls. Telcos have always been parasites.
No they don't. They encrypt them in the background after explicitly telling you and flashing up a dialogue box which you can't avoid which gives you the option to sync your key (or not), or print the key, or save the key to the USB stick. Literally 1 of 3, you can't not select an option, and it's a full screen dialogue so you can't provision your computer without acknowledging that the encryption is happening.
Additionally if the OP's case were a new computer than they wouldn't have gotten that far since apparently the sister doesn't even know the password to her account (which is strictly required to provision a new PC)
Learn to recognise when you're being bullshitted to.
so if a user forgot which e-mail address they happened to give during setup, or no longer have access to that account
Yes, users forgetting things is dumb, including users not writing down bitlocker recover keys, or printing them out. Maybe, just maybe, losing everything due to their stupidity can teach them a lesson.
Apparently, it's not ransomware when Microsoft does it.
Tell me you don't know what ransomware is without telling us.
Yes it does. It presents you multiple dialogue boxes when doing so and explains the importance of your key. It also critically doesn't let you bypass the dialogue by hitting the X button like an impatient idiot meaning you will be making a conscious decision to sync your key, to print your key, or to copy it to a USB stick (the three options presented to the user in your scenario).
Additionally if this were the scenario the OP was describing then a) it wouldn't have happened silently, again there's dialogues, and b) it wouldn't work since apparently the OP's sister doesn't know her Microsoft password (in which case she can't provision the laptop in the first place).
Recognise stupid lies when you see them.
Only if cherry picking the last few weeks
People whose machine get owned don't care if the statistics are cherry picked. The reality is if you want a secure PC, don't turn it on.
Trolling, how quaint.
Trolling? I called it counting, but english is my second language.
Oh, I'm not talking about those at all, just how when something I studied deeply in college slips my mind, I think, "damn, getting old". Which I still think is what the person quoted was actually dealing with. You and I are used to it (if you've done anything for 40 years). This guy may have been running into it for the first time and putting the blame elsewhere.
Ah, gotcha. You were referring to the comment from the summary, not mine. Yeah, it's fun to watch the young'uns realize that they are absolutely going to spend their whole lives realizing they forgot something they used to know. It's even more fun to watch them the first time they look at code they wrote two months ago and say "Who wrote this stupid shit? Oh....".
This is not even remotely true.
Tesla shuts off before crashes
https://electrek.co/2025/03/17...
Tesla can't detect things even the most primitive AEB systems will stop for
https://www.theswansonlawgroup...
Idiots who Elon wouldn't piss on if they were on fire suck billionaire dick
https://slashdot.org/comments....
Why do you react so angrily to disagreement?
Oh look, you're morally bankrupt and stupid. Already knew that, though.
I promise you that letting Jesus into your life will make it better.
Oh, THAT is the specific kind of creeper dipshit you are. I wondered. I do not want or need Jesus to save me from what Jesus is going to do to me (send me to hell) if I don't love him. Your god is the most pathetic abusive substitute for an abusive spouse ever imagined by sad little men.
Yeah, that one really came across more as, "oh crap, I'm getting older!"
Really? Doesn't feel that way at all to me. What it feels like is that LLMs are a massive force multiplier for the skills I already have.
Beyonce, and "her" music, is overrated. Also not at all relevant or interesting news for this site.
Why the scare quotes? Are you uncertain if she's a woman? Or do you not understand how to use quotation marks?
Oh THAT doesn't feel right?
Dark energy is child's play. How about Einstein's field equation the solution of which implies the existence of white holes and and not one but parallel universes?
Honestly most of advanced physics doesn't feel right.
Atoms? Sure thing.
Electrons, Positron and Neutrons? Okay.
Up / Down Quarks? Who's your dealer and how can I get some of that good shit!
Even things we know to be true:
Light is a particle. Yep!
Light is a wave. Uhuh!
Light is both a wave and particle wait what? Who let the loonie in here?
When my car gets broken into the cops shrug. Once I was told I can fill out a report but it's "not going to be a priority"
Seems the rich and famous get a different justice system on both ends.
Did they steal stuff worth millions?
Though, of course, this raises the question of why someone would leave valuable masters in a suitcase in an unoccupied core.
It's Mickeysoft's fault they locked the computer for no reason.
No it's your fault for believing this insanely stupid story. Enabling bitlocker is a process with quite a few steps. At no point does it either enable itself - there's no mechanism for it to do so, and even if that process was started (even admins can't remotely enable bitlocker unless the machine is tied to a domain account) there would be many dialogues to click through before the encryption process is even started.
Things we don't know for certain:
a) Did laxr5rs' sister lie to him to save face?
b) Did laxr5rs lie to us
Things we do know for certain:
You're super gullible for ragebait.
she left her machine off for a while and it, for whatever reason bitlocked itself
She's either lying to you or you are lying to us.
Eureka! -- Archimedes
