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A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it (www.techspot.com)
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[–] Dalraz@lemmy.ca 111 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seems like every week there is another reason why I'm thankful I switched to Linux a few years ago.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Only thing I find annoying with full volume LUKS encryption is that it makes it difficult to resize partitions, it's a whole thing, but it's a minor hassle and not something I'd do every day anyway.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I have the page with instructions for this prominently bookmarked because it was such a nightmare to figure out the last time I migrated my OS to a differently sized drive.

[–] slowbyrne@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I like to use btrfs subvolumes inside a luks lvm volume for this reason.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I would like to know more.jpg

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

VeraCrypt solves this issue. I leave my main OS unencrypted then simply store veracrypt partitions to the size I need and put files inside that as needed. I've dealt with resizing luks partitions and its not worth it. Especially if you build, maintain, or otherwise tinker with you system.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

I feel like a hermit stumbling upon other hermits complaining about hermit stuff.

[–] statelesz@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What? Btrfs subvolumes are basically the same as logical volumes. That's somewhat redundant.

[–] slowbyrne@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Your correct. It is redundant. I think I needed the lvm layer to get an installer to recognize the luks partition. Can't remember if it's Pop or Fedora. That installer bug might be fixed now though. One day I'll check and update my drive so its just using btrfs on luks.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why not just encrypt the whole drive and then use virtual partitions within the encryption?

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Because I twin boot other OSs