good news for those being locked out of their data by one of the faulty windows 11 upgrades!
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Microslop can't even claim incompetence. The way this reads, the function is intended as a back door.
Anything that isn't open source can't be secure. That doesn't mean that everything open source is secure though.
Why do they call it "drive encryption" when it does not need a user-provided password or other key?
TPM microslop magic.
What's even funnier is that we already have TCG, ISE, and SE drives that hardware encrypt AES256 by design, so you still get at least an instant delete option if you never bother to set a key.
Windows wants to double screw you over by never telling you it added a key, and then leaving you dead in the water if your TPM breaks, and then also failing to maintain their own TPM requirements making it completely useless lol.
Bitlocker is Temu encryption
Temu is, as Chinese netizens will tell you, full of items on a lower 4th rung of quality well below what they are used to (at least the urbanites, but I doubt farmers want to buy junk for shit they need to do). That doesn't mean that a single-board computer you buy off it would be incapable of anything you need to do, just surrounded by stuff advertised in a misleading way to get you to buy more shit.
Their business itself has customer data well-encrypted, never sends out your email to spammers (I isolate email accounts I would notice). They have never had a single data breach.
weird bot
I manually post on these as well, they currently have only used post scheduling, haven't set up feeds. It's nice to hide my own accounts from each other, and if I don't, then I'm going to forget and people will get mad that the bots are unmarked. Not your problem.
So, any comment on me pointing out the obvious racism?
The post you replied to never said "Chinese", it said "Temu". So you saying "Oh yeah Chinese people agree, Temu is garbage" actually proves... that it was a reasonable statement?
It still could've been said from a racist place or with undertones of racism, but it's not necessarily guaranteed. Temu is garbage. Americans think so. Chinese people apparently think so.
How specious. Yes, Temu is trash mixed with treasure, but it's the exact same garbage you pay a premium for at online or brick-and-mortar retailers, so I find it quite funny when USonians act above it. You don't have an option for better quality that isn't as Chinese as possible without getting ripped off, unless you need cameras or the latest graphics cards. Temu encryption is good. American corporate encryption leans very bad. Just watch some cybersecurity conferences. More than racism I'm irritated by people using terminology wrong.
Chinese people think Temu is trash and would never use it
I find it quite funny when USonians act above it
I'm going to stop talking to you now because wtf are you even on about. No one said anything about not wanting to buy Chinese goods. I specifically buy Chinese goods because at least their billionaires are kept to heel and are doing less to actively fuck over my life than Jeff Bezos.
Also no one said anything about Temu encryption but you, so again, wtf are you even on about?
Well, I'm happy to stop talking if you're the type more interested in catfighting than even interpreting the conversation correctly. GreenBottles did in fact start off saying Microsoft is using Temu encryption. If Microsoft was using Temu encryption then their customers would be safe & they would have a record of zero data breaches. I don't think farmers would buy anything important on Temu, I never said no Chinese person would use it. This is anecdotal from speaking to urbanites who were more interested in high-quality manufacturing for throwing some money around in the markets. Nevermind!
I'm glad you buy your Chinese stuff directly instead of through Bezos, but I hope you can see that the kids using Temu synonymously with "dogshit" are being somewhat racist. Since this isn't based off a comparison with durable good from Amazon or the supermarket. Amazon support just isn't worth the markup. It's informed by propaganda spreading through unconventional means such as gore websites plastered with Russian and Chinese industrial accidents or hit-and-runs from the 2000s. Things change, and when that change is accompanied by a meme where a Chinese company is used as an adjective meaning dogshit, I think, well, the advertising firms that these Fortune 500 companies employ would feel quite chickenshit if they got beaten to the punch by natural slang developments. They'd be saying gee, I wish we got them talking like this five years before.
No one likes you
Americans, when you remind them they live in a world of shit they created: "You have to want me to like you or you're a bad person lol"
No, I don't. You are pond scum. Put me on the phone with your mother. I'll give that slag what for. You were raised up wrong.
Shut uo bot
They said "Temu encryption" as in encryption of a quality on par with products purchased from Temu, not literally as in using the same encryption as Temu.
[sees someone doing truly burger-brained shit] what are we, a bunch of ASIANS?
as usual clods act like you misparsed a message to pretend they're unable to grok it, rather than unwilling
A. Not what anyone said, even if you want it to be so you have something to be angry about.
B. Why would I use any AI? I'm not a braindead mouthbreather incapable of doing their own thinking and research.
That's not what grok means you complete goof! I'm using the terminology Elon named "Grok" the groombot after. Would you give it a rest?
Buddy, if I was angry with you, I wouldn't be explaining the basics of conversation to you. Imagine having this kind of discussion off the internet. You would never be like this. You would suddenly remember the versatility of language, and the point I am making, because otherwise you'd feel ridiculous.
There was a reason for disappearance of TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt was forked into VeraCrypt, which is still maintained.
What reason? It was broken?
Suddenly dev resigned and posted bizzare post that read like he was at a gunpoint, recommending bitlocker instead of truecrypt
It was very likely compromised by NSA requiring a backdoor or weakened encryption that could be cracked by the US. There's a long story that's pretty interesting if you want to hit the rabbit hole
BitLocker is basically malware, so who fucking cares. Far more people have it accidentally on and get locked out than people that have purposefully activated it.
You have just reminded me I could use this on the laptop my mother set up like five years ago and immediately forgot the password for.
Companies care
When I worked at an MSP, BitLocker cost companies thousands of dollars when it did something strange. User error has very catastrophic consequences with BitLocker and nobody that actually cares about security uses BitLocker. From my professional experience it is malware. The places where I have seen it used on purpose was because of policy bullshit and everyone agreed that it was a hindrance rather than an advantage.
Somebody on twitter “reverse engineered” the exploit. Apparently ms shipped debug code in production. At least it’s not called Backdoor_FBI outright.
How it works:
- Recovery tools look for a config file called RecoverySimulation.ini on the OS drive
- If Active=Yes, it enables "test mode" for the recovery tools
- Test mode unlocks your BitLocker drive but a flag called FailRelock tells it to skip relocking
- cmd.exe spawns with full access to your "encrypted" drive
"Ah yes, but think about how much faster they shipped that code with Copilot doing all the heavy lifting."
- Some Microsoft exec, probably
YellowKey can be triggered simply by merely copying some files to a USB stick and rebooting to the Windows Recovery Environment. We tested this ourselves, and sure enough, not only does it work, it bears all the hallmarks of a backdoor, down to the exploit's files disappearing from the USB stick after it's used once.
100% certainty of backdoor. Is bitlocker developed outside of MSFT? Would seem to need MSFT cooperation to implement.
Bitlocker was developed entirely inside MSFT. Upon further review, there is a chance that this is all somewhat normal behaviour. Part of MSFT safeOS to make it convenient to recover bitlocker access, and update windows.
Normal behaviour?
-"Well it turns out we just said your data was protected, for your, ehrm, satisfaction?"
And be able to easily comply with law enforcement requests for decryption.
Ergo, the encryption is actually worthless.
From their blog:
Now regarding YellowKey, lots of you are wondering how does one even find such backdoor ?
I'll tell you how, it took me more time trying to get it to work than the amount of sleep I had in two years combined. No AI involved, no help in any shape or form. I could have made some insane cash selling this but no amount of money will stand between me and my determination against Microsoft.
[...]
I can't wait when I will be allowed to disclose the full story, I think people will find my crashout very reasonable and it definitely won't be a good look for Microsoft.
Looking forward to the full story.
I could have made some insane cash selling this but no amount of money will stand between me and my determination against Microsoft.
There is no better motivator than pure anger and spite.
The process is dead simple: grab any USB stick, get write access to the "System Volume Information," and copy into it the "FsTx" folder and its contents. Shift+click Restart to get Windows to the recovery environment, but then switch to holding down the Control key and don't let go. The machine will reboot, and without asking any questions or showing any menus, will drop you in an elevated command line with full access to the formerly Bitlocked drive, without asking for any keys.
~~Its dead simple to get write access to System Volume Information~~
~~Not even local admins have access to it. A local admin would have to take ownership of that folder (not recommended), but if a local admin is doing that for this exploit, they can just turn off Bitlocker rather than go through this nonsense.~~
I misunderstood the exploit. See replies.
I lost 3 years of work and my research dissertation because of bitlocker. Fuck you microslop, now I do everything on Linux because of your security garbage
Not to be that guy, but that's 100% on you for not having backups of important work. It's 3 years and your fucking research dissertation, how the fuck do you keep that all in one place?
This time you got fucked by Microsoft for having shit software. But it could have been your hardware that exploded, your house catching fire, your shit being stolen, you downloading malware from that one site you told your girlfriend you'd never visit again, shitty infrastructure causing power issues or flooding, you yourself having a nervous breakdown and nuking the thing.
Keep everything important at least in three places, one of which should be in a physically different (remote) place. Backup often, keep to the schedule and test your backups.
Jeez man, using Microsoft software and not having backups is like walking around with a loaded gun pointed at your dick. It's all well and good till you get your dick blown off.
In the immortal words of Daniel Rutter (again): If nothing else, backups are necessary because at some point in your life you will confidently instruct your computer to destroy your data.
i just deleted a month of notes by doing:
find $(pwd) "*.tmp" -delete
instead of:
find $(pwd) -iname "*.tmp" -delete
turns out the former throws an error on "*.tmp" but still deletes everything lol... PSA for everyone
why $(pwd) instead of just . ?
i changed it so that ppl on lemmy who may not be familiar with the syntax of find could read it easier? maybe it made it more confusing
I think it's your fault if you don't have backups... but I legitimately think that we should restrict usage of classic Unix tools to scripts, and use safer tools ourselves... but I guess that's just my opinion.
That makes me think of when TrueCrypt suddenly stopped being developed: https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/is-truecrypt-a-victim-of-hacking-4280447?cf-view
As in you think they were pressured into stopping development so people would switch over to BitLocker, which now appears to have a backdoor put in by Microsoft or at least one of the developers, presumably at the behest of a government?
there's a backdoor built right into bitlocker in the form of 'recovery keys'--and for most users, microsoft knows what they are.
and for most users, microsoft knows what they are.
This is notable specifically because Microsoft has been compelled by courts to turn over those keys before.
I don’t blame Microsoft for complying with legal court orders, but I 100% blame them for building systems that allow them to access users’ data (including the keys) in the first place. If they used proper E2EE, they wouldn’t be able to access your keys at all. But that would prevent them from gobbling up all of your private data to sell. And the fifth amendment doesn’t protect third parties. So if the FBI confiscates your PC and you clam up, the feds can just compel Microsoft to give them your keys instead.