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No, recommending bitlocker back then was basically a joke to anyone at that time, an obvious way of telling you something wrong. The obvious recommendation bac
by cypress66 3y ago
No, recommending bitlocker back then was basically a joke to anyone at that time, an obvious way of telling you something wrong.
The obvious recommendation back then was LUKS. And even if there were no alternatives they're not going to recommend you a proprietary solution with a high chance of being backdoored. They'll just say to use "other software".
- kijin 3y agoThe majority of TrueCrypt users were on Windows and needed a GUI. Backdoors or not, BitLocker was the only comparable alternative. Recommending BitLocker might have been a signal to hackers in the aftermath of the Snowden revelations, but IIRC the announcement also included a detailed tutorial for setting up BitLocker that was actually quite helpful to anyone whose threat model mostly concrerned thieves, corporate spies, and non-Five Eyes intelligence agencies.