Technology

Not your keys ? Not your data !

Amazing how every time you think they've finally stopped digging.. they whip out the steam shovel and go "Hey y'all, watch this!"

Well, storing the key in the specific provider‘s cloud isn‘t a good idea anyway - the same counts for iCloud as well. There are things that should be separated from each other because of reasons, this one is just another proof for the need to do so.

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.

Microslop's OS is evidently untrustworthy and should not be used. I recommend replacing it with a Linux distribution.

So how did Microsoft have the keys in the first place? The article says they are automatically uploaded to the cloud. What does that mean? They're uploaded to the user's on drive or something else? Because whatever that user account is shouldn't be accessible by Microsoft, even if they run the service. I'm not saying aim surprised they do have it, but would be nice to be a little clearer about what features of Bitlocker to avoid. Is it the Microsoft account associated with the windows key? Probably.

Expect nothing else from any corporation for your own safety.

This is why I don't use bit locker, nothing microslop controls secure in any way.

I was summoned to help eject a CD today.

I’m out.

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.