Multiple people have e-mailed me begging for help with data recovery on Surface computers with BitLocker. Apparently they enable TPM secureboot BitLocker by default, but it's a brittle mess and any number of random things can change the PCRs and lock people out forever.
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This stuff may be fine us, but it's an objectively broken state of affairs as far as UX goes with dire consequences, and absolutely should never be pushed on regular users unless you literally never need the recovery key, ever, under all circumstances not involving a screwdriver.
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That's one of the reasons why MS is pushing account linking so hard. If they logged in with their Live account, there is backup online.
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