Anyone included Microsoft. You’re thinking of the word “everyone”
Its not anyone though. Not anyone can get a warrant and demand the keys
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
ech@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Anyone as in “a single person”. They don’t mean everyone has access.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Sure. It’s not anyone. It’s anyone that can get a warrant. Or anyone that have enough power/underhanded influence to ask them nicely. Or any admin that have access to cloud storage at MS (remember they where caught with some exec having full access to that a while ago). Or any big leak that could exfiltrate these data. And probably a handful of other people, like, someone getting access to your MS account for whatever reason (which kinda happen, seeing how people lose their mail account to phishing/scams all the time) suddenly having access to your keys from there.
If your keys are in a DB somewhere, there’s a lot of way they could get out. Would these ways coincide with someone actually having your drive at hand? Probably not. Still, the key not existing in plaintext in some third party storage close all these holes.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
what happens when fydor monikov from the kgb gets a copy of these master keys
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
KGB is inside the oval office 💀
French75@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
Are they really sleepers any more?
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
if Microsoft has the power to give the keys to the feds what happens when Microsoft gets hacked?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
or they give the keys or whatever data willingly, and then say they are hacked as an excuse.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Wouldn’t the hacker then need to track down your physical computer…steal it…use the bitlocker key…look to see if you actually have any data worth taking etc…?