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aiscomingtoday at 5:52 AM1 replyview on HN

the only way to bypass PIN would be an actual backdoor in Bitlocker. no way around that. an actual backdoor in microsoft encryption was never documented, and there are Snowden documents showing FBI pressing Microsoft into introducing one and Microsoft refusing

so I call bullshit on the PIN bypass


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cookiengineertoday at 5:57 AM

> the only way to bypass PIN would be an actual backdoor in Bitlocker. no way around that. an actual backdoor in microsoft encryption was never documented, and there are Snowden documents showing FBI pressing Microsoft into introducing one and Microsoft refusing

A USB stick containing a masterkey to decrypt a bitlocker volume is literally the definition of a backdoor.

Go on, try it out. It works.

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