Comment Flaw or feature? (Score 2) 1
Is your data of the type that you need a fully protected unrecoverable storage or can you actually accept that your data can be accessed when there's physical access to the media?
The ability to recover data is actually something that's quite important, last week I did a recovery of data off a laptop that wasn't encrypted with bitlocker. That was the only way since the previous owner had passed away due to old age and passwords weren't available and there was no way to recover the password through M$ login since the phone number used for recovery wasn't active anymore or even in the hands of a completely unknown unrelated person since it had been reused.
But Microsoft of course promotes their accounts and Bitlocker "for your safety". But not for your inheritors, especially in this electronic age where most documents are purely electronic and never printed. So some important documents might be unrecoverable.