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Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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YellowKey reportedly works in Windows 11, Windows Server 2022 and 2025, but not in Windows 10.

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[–] 37 points 5 months ago (6 children)

BitLocker is basically malware, so who fucking cares. Far more people have it accidentally on and get locked out than people that have purposefully activated it.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Companies care

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    When I worked at an MSP, BitLocker cost companies thousands of dollars when it did something strange. User error has very catastrophic consequences with BitLocker and nobody that actually cares about security uses BitLocker. From my professional experience it is malware. The places where I have seen it used on purpose was because of policy bullshit and everyone agreed that it was a hindrance rather than an advantage.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    And from my experience in banking, healthcare and others; every company uses bitlocker on workstations, I saw EncFS once in dozens of companies audited.

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