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SECURITYMay 17 · 18:55 UTCR/BITCOIN/u/TheresNoSecondBest

One of many reasons why you don't want to store your keys on a computer or server: Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker

A security researcher known as Nightmare-Eclipse discovered a backdoor in Microsoft's BitLocker, which can be exploited using the YellowKey vulnerability to bypass full-volume encryption. The researcher claims that this backdoor was intentionally introduced by Microsoft. The vulnerability can be used to access encrypted data without passwords.

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