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Microsoft will now encrypt new SSDs with BitLocker

Although Windows ships with its own full volume encryption tool called BitLocker, SSDs that claimed to offer their own hardware-based encryption were trusted by the tool and left alone.Now though, after a recent update to Windows 10, Microsoft will assume that connected SSDs don't actually encrypt anything.In a Twitter post, SwiftOnSecurity described why the software giant has decided to no longer trust SSD manufacturers, saying:“Microsoft gives up on SSD manufacturers: Windows will no lon
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