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Math Geek Anyone surprised by this or believes it the first time, really needs to wake up. The entire point of MS keeping your encryption key is so they can snoop on your files. Secondary reason is so the US gov can access whatever they want as well from users worldwide. This is not a secret, it's only unknown to those deliberately avoiding reality. Reply
jp7189 Math Geek said: Anyone surprised by this or believes it the first time, really needs to wake up. The entire point of MS keeping your encryption key is so they can snoop on your files. Secondary reason is so the US gov can access whatever they want as well from users worldwide. This is not a secret, it's only unknown to those deliberately avoiding reality. Thats a little over paranoid take on it. Bitlocker, like most "at rest" encryption is freely accessible when the device is powered on and unlocked. You don't need a key to snoop at that point. In this case the FBI physically confiscated the laptops. No snooping about it. All this article is reaffirming is that key management is a B. How and where those keys are stored is important. Moral of the story, don't store your keys in a place that's accessible by the people you're trying to hide data from. Reply
ezst036 Giving up the keys, not a surprise at all. Again, the need for distributed computing could not be more clear.(FOSS/Linux/etc) Reply
pcn1201 Math Geek said: Anyone surprised by this or believes it the first time, really needs to wake up. The entire point of MS keeping your encryption key is so they can snoop on your files. Secondary reason is so the US gov can access whatever they want as well from users worldwide. This is not a secret, it's only unknown to those deliberately avoiding reality. Am I missing something here or am I the only person who thinks this is normal? If the FBI has a warrant for those encryption keys, then would it not constitute an obstruction of justice for MS to not provide them? If someone's being investigated by the FBI they probably have a reason, and also a warrant. Is there something else going in this situation I'm not aware of? Reply
umeng2002_2 This all goes back to the absurdity of the 3rd party doctrine loophole in the Constitution. Courts have ruled that since you shared information with someone else, it means you magically approve of anyone (the government) getting it to. Reply
USAFRet umeng2002_2 said: This all goes back to the absurdity of the 3rd party doctrine loophole in the Constitution. Courts have ruled that since you shared information with someone else, it means you magically approve of anyone (the government) getting it to. Key phrase: "…and our partners…" Reply
waltc3 I keep reading this on some sites, bizarrely (not here, thankfully): "BitLocker is turned on by default in every Windows installation." Gaaaa….;) The ignorance here is astounding…;) No, it's not turned on by default. I've never used it. Poor folks apparently think BitLocker is nothing you'd notice when installing or running Windows!…;) They must see end-to-end drive encryption as an ordinarily invisible AV program. This proves them ignorant of both Windows and BitLocker, imo. WaltC's Rule of thumb: Do not put anything on the Internet, in any form, encrypted or otherwise, that you do not want the world to see. It doesn't matter whose encryption you use, it can be broken. Period. Have no thought to the contrary. As one savvy user has pointed out, none of these companies can say no to law enforcement, ultimately. However, and this has to be stressed, you can bet your sweet bippy that all of these companies will insist that law-enforcement make an exceptionally compelling case to them as to why they should break encryption in a specific case. Simply saying: "Break this encryption" is wholly insufficient, as the government would be forcing a company to break its guarantees to its customers. Indeed, in the encryption fine print, you will see that the encryption is not guaranteed for illegal data –so, if you are plotting to blow up your neighbor's house because his kid broke your kid's game disk, be aware that the company is not compelled to maintain encryption in such a case…;) Reply
USAFRet waltc3 said: No, it's not turned on by default. I've never used it. Poor folks apparently think BitLocker is nothing you'd notice when installing or running Windows! On some systems, it IS there be default. Generally, preinstalled systems like laptops. Especially if it comes with Win 11 S. And it is mostly not noticeable. Log on to the system, the entire drive is unlocked. It is not something you need to interact with all the time. Ant 'performance issue' is not seen, because you've never used that particular laptop without it. Me buying a Surface laptop a couple of years ago, it was BL encrypted by default. When the system is up and running, the whole drive is decrypted. The BL only comes in to play if that drive were to be removed and read attempts in some other system. Yes, I eventually turned it OFF, but did not see any performance benefit. Reply
ezst036 umeng2002_2 said: This all goes back to the absurdity of the 3rd party doctrine loophole in the Constitution. Courts have ruled that since you shared information with someone else, it means you magically approve of anyone (the government) getting it to. It goes back to low-quality consumers. These are informed consumers, Microsoft has been this Microsoft for a long time. They didn't switch to being a new and aggressive Microsoft just yesterday. There are no excuses. Reply
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsoft-gave-customers-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-the-fbi-redmond-confirms-that-it-provides-recovery-keys-to-government-agencies-with-valid-legal-orders#main
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