Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch

• jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  if Microsoft has the power to give the keys to the feds what happens when Microsoft gets hacked?

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    or they give the keys or whatever data willingly, and then say they are hacked as an excuse.

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  • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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…?

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Actually they’d probably set up a Bitlocker key shop on the dark web

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• ech@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Anyone as in “a single person”. They don’t mean everyone has access.

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• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Anyone included Microsoft. You’re thinking of the word “everyone”

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  what happens when fydor monikov from the kgb gets a copy of these master keys

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    KGB is inside the oval office 💀

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  • French75@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Are they really sleepers any more?

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    • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, according to whistleblowers from the CIA

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      • French75@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just to clarify… my question wasn’t “do sleepers exist” it was should we continue to call them sleepers when they have broad access to the administrative branch of the US government.

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