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As in you think they were pressured into stopping development so people would switch over to BitLocker, which now appears to have a backdoor put in by Microsoft or at least one of the developers, presumably at the behest of a government?
there's a backdoor built right into bitlocker in the form of 'recovery keys'--and for most users, microsoft knows what they are.
The thought did cross my mind, yeah. I don't think it's quite sufficient evidence to make such a big conclusion, but both of these seem so conspicuous
Yeah its Not Safe As.
Also your delivery from Flowers By Irene is waiting outside