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[–] user28282912@piefed.social 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Except that Microsoft basically puts a gun to every users head to login with a Microsoft account which can/does backup the recovery keys.

[–] SalamenceFury@piefed.social -2 points 2 days ago

Rufus: "Am I a joke to you?"

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This is why we Jason Bourne style snatch the gun out of their holster before they can draw it and beat them unconcious with it, I mean oobe\bypassnro

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Iirc bypassnro no longer works on recent builds of windows

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It no longer works as a shortcut, but the actual bypass still works. In practice the command line you have to enter just got a bit longer is all.

At least last time I needed it, to that still worked fine. It's been a few months.