From Newsgroup: alt.privacy
Marcus90@guess.com wrote:
Microsoft gives the FBI the ability to decrypt BitLocker in
response to court orders: about twenty times per year.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/microsoft-is-giving-the-fbi-bitlocker-keys.html
That is not at all surprising to me.
There's more in the comments:
It’s not just the FBI – Microsoft hands out these keys to any law enforcement agency of any country with a valid warrant.
... and he says more:
And the problem is not so much that the keys are stored on
Microsoft’s servers but that they aren’t encrypted there (e.g., with
a key stored in the TPM of the device).
The other problem, of course, is that Microsoft is making it
increasingly impossible to install Windows without a Microsoft
account, in which case a ton of your personal stuff is stored on
their servers anyway.
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Mike Easter
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