I big demographic of HN users are people who want to be the multi-trillion dollar corporation so it’s not too surprising. In this case though I think they are right. And I’m a big time Microsoft hater.

The defenders of Microsoft are right?

How?

There is no point locking your laptop with a passphrase if that passphrase is thrown around.

Sure, maybe some thief can't get access, but they probably can if they can convince Microsoft to hand over the key.

Microsoft should not have the key, thats part of the whole point of FDE; nobody can access your drive except you.

The cost of this is that if you lose your key: you also lose the data.

We have trained users about this for a decade, there have been countless dialogues explaining this, even if we were dumber than we were (we're not, despite what we're being told: users just have fatigue from over stimulation due to shitty UX everywhere); then it's still a bad default.