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
People called me paranoid when I said this would happen someday…
if theres money to be made it will happen one day
Amazing how every time you think they’ve finally stopped digging… they whip out the steam shovel and go “Hey y’all, watch this!”
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”.
Or decline the upload recommendation.
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.
all of the disadvantages of FDE with none of the advantages.
not that this wasnt expected, wtf do yall think it was uploaded to onedrive in the first place lol
Just as I expected how security in Microsoft products works.
Can I have those please? I think I need it to unlock an old hardrive.
If you uploaded your recovery key to Microsoft, then recovery is probably available in the normal recovery workflow.
Isn’t this against the fourth admement or something?
Just use Linux.
Wasn’t this by design? Otherwise why keeping the decryption keys on servers located in the united states’?
It’s a consequence of the design.
I certainly wouldn’t want end users calling me because they lost their recovery keys and consequently all their data. So I can understand offering or even recommending fallbacks.
The real solution would be clear and obvious documented choice for an informed decision. Online backup for fallback but meaning possibility of court order compromise and other external management risks, or self-managed with no recovery in case of loss.
Microslop is openly anti consumer. Why would you hand them your encryption keys?
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.
