On: Encrypting Windows Hard Drives

[wlesieutre]

> It requires a TPM, uEFI, and Microsoft Account. But once you meet the requirements it gives you a "basic" level of encryption which for a petty criminal is hard to break. Most Surface Pros 3 will have this enabled already.

Are you sure this is accurate? I'm using a Surface Pro (comes with Windows Professional), and when I go to the BitLocker settings (in Control Panel) it's shown as enabled. I haven't changed from whatever the default settings are.

[yareally → wlesieutre]

I think you missed reading part of the comment that implied it worked on Professional:

> It works on non-pro/non-enterprise systems.

[wlesieutre → yareally]

Right, I'm wondering about the assertion that the SP3 came with a "poor man's BitLocker called Drive Encryption" enabled. The BitLocker preferences tell me I have BitLocker enabled.