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A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it (www.techspot.com)

submitted 3 days ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/technology@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/4133762

A researcher known as "Nightmare-Eclipse" recently released YellowKey, a security vulnerability that allegedly enables a full bypass of BitLocker's full-volume encryption. The researcher described YellowKey as one of the most "insane" flaws they have ever encountered and has also accused Microsoft of potentially embedding a legitimate backdoor in BitLocker's data protection system.

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[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The legally have to because of the US Cloud Act.

Every single US company has a backdoor because of this.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 2 days ago

And this just proved why it's impossible to have a backdoor

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 days ago

A second backdoor. Windows also uploads your BitLocker keys to Microsoft's servers by default, just in case somebody needs to get in later.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

Wait a second, are you saying Microslop isn't my friend?