https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/how-to-go-from-stole...
One aspect of this is that some laptop manufacturers provide a setting to erase the TPM if the laptop is opened. You opened that laptop to see if you can add more RAM? Better hope you can access the bitlocker key or have a good backup.
People who avoid making a Microsoft account to log on to a windows computer, or who don't have access to the email address they used can find themselves in difficulty later when windows won't boot or it wants the bitlocker key for some reason. You can't get their files off the drive by connecting it to another machine because the bitlocker key is not available.
Yes, people should have backups and copies of their keys but they very commonly don't.
* silently activates
* silently sends the key to MS.
And this is the only way to have it on home.
If you fall into the category of users that distrust microsoft with their key, you can take active action and configure bitlocker yourself.
If you don't sign in with a microsoft account bitlocker isn't enabled by default. When you setup bitlocker it "forces" you to make a backup of the key
Do you mean like if you remove the screws and get inside a laptop?
Could they gain access by cutting the plastic instead (maybe Matrix parasite extraction style).
After I opened it, it would just refuse to turn on, probably a safeguard when repairing and not wanting it to run anything.
But I did not know and thought I broke it, but after closing it again and tightening one screw in the middle, it worked and so I found that sensor. It is a very simple, but reliable push button and before it breaks, the screen will be broken long before that.