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Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw (www.forbes.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by webdoodle@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

This isn’t exposing some unknown flaw. As the article says, this only applies for people who willingly use Bitlocker Recovery, which stores your key with Microsoft.

Those concerned about privacy would never do such a thing. As the article also states, many FBI requests cannot be fulfilled because the accounts didn’t share their keys.

…20 requests for BitLocker keys per year and in many cases, the user has not stored their key in the cloud making it impossible for Microsoft to assist.

[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

I had to help people getting back into their system after an unknown bitlocker lock. Is this really about people "willingly" using it? If I'm not wrong it's by default if you make an online account (which seems became an obligation with Windows 11).