> And Windows has useful account-based file encryption too.
Is this on by default on Windows? I haven't needed to access my files from another Windows installation for a long time, but I'm pretty sure the last time I tried on my good old hard drive with Windows 7, they weren't encrypted and I had no trouble to access them.
> No, but it only takes a minute to turn on if you're going to be sharing unsupervised access to a computer.
This is not something that 99.99% of Steam users would do though...
It would still be possible to retrieve the encryption keys too if the PC is still running (which is also the only ways to make Steam vulnerability viable) using a can of compressed air [1].
As I said, physical access to a computer is pretty much already game over... The Steam vulnerability is quite useful while being connected remotely though (which is really the most likely scenario either way).
Is this on by default on Windows? I haven't needed to access my files from another Windows installation for a long time, but I'm pretty sure the last time I tried on my good old hard drive with Windows 7, they weren't encrypted and I had no trouble to access them.