Forbes reported on Friday that Microsoft turned over recovery keys for BitLocker, allowing the FBI to access data stored on ...
Microsoft stores the hard drive encryption key in customers' online accounts by default. It can be accessed there by court ...
Forbes reports that Microsoft complied with an FBI request for decryption keys to a suspect's personal laptops last year.
BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...
Microsoft provided the FBI with BitLocker encryption recovery keys following a warrant request, allowing federal agents to ...
If your machine is uploading your BitLocker keys to Microsoft, Microsoft can and will give them to law enforcement, it turns ...
Microsoft tells told Forbes that it receives around 20 such requests for BitLocker keys every year.
Microsoft has provided BitLocker encryption keys to the FBI in a Guam fraud case, marking the first known instance of such cooperation and raising privacy concerns.
As the first major tech company to comply with government demands for encrypted data, Microsoft sets a dangerous precedent.
Click on Start, search cmd, and click on Run as Administrator. This will open an elevated Command Prompt, here; run this command: manage-bde -protectors -get C: All the Bitlocker recovery keys stored ...
Microsoft stores the hard drive encryption key in customers' online accounts by default. It can be accessed there with a court order.