alt Hacker News> Microsoft told Forbes that the company sometimes provides BitLocker recovery keys to authorities, having received an average of 20 such requests per year.
At least they are honest about it, but a good reason to switch over to linux. Particularly if you travel.
If microsoft is giving these keys out to the US government, they are almost certainly giving them to all other governments that request them.
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TrainedMonkey • today at 6:14 PM
All other governments is a stretch here, but likelihood of at least one another government getting same privileges is extremely high.
slashdave • today at 6:27 PM
Why take the drastic step of switching to linux (a difficult endeavor) when you can simply turn off key uploading.
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illusive4 • today at 6:18 PM
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It's not like companies have a choice. If they have a key in their possession and law enforcement gets an order for it, they have to provide it.