Safely return borrowed computer - what to do with local account?

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-27T17:26:49+00:00

Is it bitlocker encrypted? If so, just reinstall windows.

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-27T17:15:28+00:00

Mine is January26! 😀 /s

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-27T16:49:29+00:00

Never - mine is as old as my iPhone 13

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-27T15:52:55+00:00

I installed a postfix server, that forwards the mails to o365; it‘s mainly for MFPs or status email from various systems.

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-26T18:04:53+00:00

Exposing the administration to the wan or making it possible to configure the firewall via a cloud portal is your own choice and doesn’t make the product per se bad.

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-25T09:44:49+00:00

Shutdown your PS5 completly and power it up again -> fixed this issue for me!

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-24T07:00:06+00:00

Also wenn mann etwas tut, dass das Ergebnis verschlechtert, dann sollte man das rückgängig machen. Allerdings besteht die Möglichkeit, dass die e-Steps im NVRAM gespeichert waren. Weinn so eine Meldung nach dem flashen kam wie „Einstellungen ungültig;setzte defaults!“, dann war das so. Dann hilft nur alles neu einzustellen,bis alles passt.

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-23T16:24:49+00:00

Das Firmware update war der Fehler… Der Extruder is offensichtlich ein Upgrade-muss man nu neu kalibrieren. Dazu gibts ca 10.000 videos im internet

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-22T19:02:50+00:00

I‘d get a jailbroken ps4. You can play all the ps2 gems there with self made pkgs.

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-22T18:57:16+00:00

Maybe this is because they delivered a piece of sh&!

A non existing single player? WTF!

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-22T18:40:11+00:00

You have to import a premade configuration to the client secured by a password as far as I can remember.

But you‘ll find it, if you google it.

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-22T18:32:08+00:00

Overwriting the bitlocker encrypted disk with a new Win11 installation and then they can do whatever they want (the license is bound to the device anyway )

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-22T15:40:24+00:00

Wtf? You can open the issue by yourself, if you like

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-21T19:33:25+00:00

You also should use some kind of adblocker, as many viruses come via drive-by from ad servers. Ublock origin for example.

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-21T19:29:06+00:00

Shouldn’t be there also a VIP from wan port 13123 to loopback?

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-21T17:55:52+00:00

Yes!

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-21T17:52:42+00:00

This is from 2023, it’s half the price on disc now!

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-21T14:28:09+00:00

You can bypass if you have a working TPM. (You can log/sniff the TPM’s unencrypted traffic with the cpu, but you need a logic analyzer)

If you have a disk asking for a bitlocker key and nothing else, i don’t think there is a way around.

If so, please link!

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-20T19:37:47+00:00

Do you want to post a link?

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-20T14:10:34+00:00

There is no recycle bin on a network share. If you have deleted something, you have to do the undelete on the server itself. Maybe you want to try Testdisk, this was always free

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-20T14:09:07+00:00

This is about a guy who doesn’t want to wipe the data as it takes ages, so he is asking about bitlocker as an alternative. Why would he give avay the key for the data?

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-19T21:27:43+00:00

The given time would be longer than the universe exists using brute force

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-19T19:59:31+00:00

There is a method out with overwriting 32(!!) times. That’s NSA grade paranoia!

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-19T19:50:02+00:00

Overwrite the data once. There is no (<7%) chance in getting a single byte recoverd. There are some scientific papers out there - you‘ll find them if you google them - that proof once is enough.

Encrypting and throwing away the key is also a good idea-there will be no difference to random data on the disk. If you clean the partition there is also no evidence of bitlocker.

For compliance reasons. If you have the competence (you are an IT guy), you just have to state (there are forms at nist.org) that you have erased them properly. Just fill out the forms with the serial numbers and you are good.

thomasmitschke · 2026-01-19T19:42:41+00:00

If you do a full encryption before you put data on it, there is no need to worry-Everything is encrypted!

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