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mynameisvladtoday at 2:32 PM1 replyview on HN

The non-cloud methods for recovering the key have been the same since Bitlocker was released 19 years ago.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/find-your-bitloc...


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superkuhtoday at 2:38 PM

I think there's been some miscommunication. If the bitlocker activation happens during tricking the user into going from a local account to online account, it is without the user's consent or real participation. They haven't printed out a copy of the key or moved it to a usb drive. They aren't aware their drives are being encrypted. They can't set up recovery keys now because the computer itself only shows the blue aka.ms screen. None of those 2/4 options are applicable.

There other 2 options are enterprise or online account (the very thing we're talking about) don't apply in this context.

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