What a slap to the faces of everyone who had been locked out of their data because they never knew about this crap and thus never saved their keys
Except their keys were saved but microsoft deemed that they cant “prove ownership” of the microsoft account, because they lack the credential…
Just use Linux.
People called me paranoid when I said this would happen someday…
if theres money to be made it will happen one day
Wasn’t this by design? Otherwise why keeping the decryption keys on servers located in the united states’?
Federal investigators in Guam believed the devices held evidence that would help prove individuals handling the island’s Covid unemployment assistance program were part of a plot to steal funds.
Damn, they weren’t even doing this to go after pedos.
I’m curious where in the economic ladder this person fell. Rich enough to get a significant amount of money from the system, but still too poor to make the government look the other way.
Microslop is openly anti consumer. Why would you hand them your encryption keys?
Amazing how every time you think they’ve finally stopped digging… they whip out the steam shovel and go “Hey y’all, watch this!”
Even if you don’t care that MS and the federal government can decrypt your data, when Bitlocker is enabled your MS account becomes cryptographically linked to your identity and machine, making it a powerful tool for surveillance, identification, and DRM.
Regular old ZIP with AES-256 should do the trick for anything truly important you want to keep locked down.
You could always do sly stuff like Hidden volumes with Veracrypt as well. Leave the crumb trail for the low key shit or old nudes of gfs you have permission to keep.
Or don’t use an operating system that uploads your encryption keys to their corporate servers for “backup”.
Ya’ll know Veracrypt isn’t Bitlocker right?
I understand what veracrypt is, i don’t understand willingly using an operating system that constantly violates your privacy at every given opportunity.
Well, since you don’t actually enter a password to decrypt a bitlocker device, you can intercept the key data with physical connectors to the TPM
Bitlocker just makes it slightly more tedious to retrieve data. As long as you have all other components intact aswell.
I was summoned to help eject a CD today.
I’m out.
Just as I expected how security in Microsoft products works.
This is why I don’t use bit locker, nothing microslop controls secure in any way.
Can I have those please? I think I need it to unlock an old hardrive.
