Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
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Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
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Re: Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
#2Duplicate story. Previous discussion here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735545
Edit: Nevermind.
Re: Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
#3Lol it's been 20 years now that the whole world should stop to be all surprised pikachu about that.
Re: Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
#4Veracrypt
https://veracrypt.io/en/Home.html
Re: Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
#5Lol it's been 20 years now that the whole world should stop to be all surprised pikachu about that.
Exactly. Being again and again surprised that corporations will defend you for literally no reason is kinda delusional.
Re: Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
#6The major OS vendors (apple, google, ms) are complicit in data turnover and have been for over ten years now. It has been reported multiple times so I'm struggling to see the angle being projected here. This feels like click harvesting got the HN "Microsoft bad" crowd.
Re: Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
#7Duplicate story. Previous discussion here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735545 Edit: Nevermind.
No it isn't. This is an evolution of that story.
Re: Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
#8Any reason to believe Apple won't do the same with whatever we backup in iCloud?
Re: Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
#9The major OS vendors (apple, google, ms) are complicit in data turnover and have been for over ten years now. It has been reported multiple times so I'm struggling to see the angle being projected here. This feels like click harvesting got the HN "Microsoft bad" crowd.
The San Bernardino iPhone case proves that Apple is very much so not complicit.
Re: Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
#10Lol it's been 20 years now that the whole world should stop to be all surprised pikachu about that.
For a long time, if you used full disk encryption, the encryption key never left your machine. If you forgot your password, the data was gone - tough luck, should have made a backup. That's still how it works on Linux.
Pretty surprising they'd back up the disk encryption secrets to the cloud at all, IMHO, let alone that they'd back it up in plaintext.