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by mikelat 4404 days ago
IF THIS IS THE CASE and that's an IF then it seriously brings into suspect backdoors in larger proprietary software. Because really if they're going after trucrypt then they have to already have gone after the big players.

I'm not going to jump the gun just yet but after snowden it's not out of the question.
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grrowl 4404 days ago
Not "backdoors" but it seems Microsoft stores the BitLocker decryption key, based on this leaked slide (just found on twitter): https://twitter.com/TheBlogPirate/status/471759810644283392/...

edit: Confirmed Microsoft stores your recovery key on their servers if you're not connected to a domain: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows-8/bitlocker-recov...

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cradle 4404 days ago
Microsoft storing your key is opt-in and optional.

Whether or not they superstitiously store it anyway is a different question.

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