What a time to be using a Mac for work...

I have been very lucky. Both (rather huge) organizations I work for almost completely unaffected (Government / University)
 
gregmcc said:
Can you imagine these poor buggers that have bitlocker installed. You need the bitlocker key and have to type it in to be able to boot into safe mode in order to fix the issue.
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100% Bitlocker use here.

I am scared one day if 1 key does not work.
What is your key ID? 9FE...
Ah ****, I have the restore key.

Kinda be an awesome virus idea to enable Bitlocker on corporation systems and record no keys.
 
My_King said:
100% Bitlocker use here.

I am scared one day if 1 key does not work.
What is your key ID? 9FE...
Ah ****, I have the restore key.

Kinda be an awesome virus idea to enable Bitlocker on corporation systems and record no keys.
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Going slightly OT here, but most keys are recoverable. Even easier if you have Lenovo.

hackaday.com

Beating Bitlocker In 43 Seconds

How long does it take to steal your Bitlocker keys? Try 43 seconds, using less than $10 in hardware. Encrypting your hard drive is good security. If you’re running Windows, the most popular s…
hackaday.com hackaday.com
 
gregmcc said:
Can you imagine these poor buggers that have bitlocker installed. You need the bitlocker key and have to type it in to be able to boot into safe mode in order to fix the issue.
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Holy ****, I didn't even think about that.

Probably why my wife's company summoned people to the office.
 
Willie Trombone said:
I think you'll find most people posting are posting from Windows PCs.
What's this baked in fail, your comprehension?

On the Mac side, I'm considering the MBP M3 Pro 18Gb but I can't bring myself to reconcile the $1699 tag it was for sale at in the US vs the over R40k tag here. Madness.
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The incredible ability Windows has always had to allow third party tools to nuke it's OS so that it blue screens and then in this particular case to take it one step further so it's unrecoverable without manual intervention.

But yes on the local pricing front I also struggle if had to fund it out of my own pocket then I would be using an Air, or not MacBook at all and just an iPad.
 
The_Librarian said:
r/sysadmin is also full of reddit sysadmins havening a bulldust day.

We're not using CS. And I'm glad of that.

TBH Never heard of CS until this morning.
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Jeez even if you weren't in IT they sponsor so much stuff it's hard to miss.

Maybe you know it as Falcon rather?

CrowdStrike


I mean if you are a Sys Admin you should surely have seen the integrations popping up in various tooling.

It's one of the most supported ones out there for SIEM integrations and so on.
 
gregmcc said:
Can you imagine these poor buggers that have bitlocker installed. You need the bitlocker key and have to type it in to be able to boot into safe mode in order to fix the issue.
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for those who might not appreciate a bitlocker key, this is the format

1234-5678-9012-3456-7890-1234-5678-9012

and iirc, it doesn't show while you're typing it in...

I remembered incorrectly
 
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SauRoNZA said:
Surely you can rotate them via software injection?
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Yes, you can rotate keys using Azure which companies should be doing. (But I suspect most are not)

AfricanTech said:
for those who might not appreciate a bitlocker key, this is the format

1234-5678-9012-3456-7890-1234-5678-9012
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It's like that Win XP cd key that everyone memorized :)
 
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