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I assume Kandula was a microsoft user and it's widely suspected there's a backdoor for law enforcement.
by technick 2y ago
I assume Kandula was a microsoft user and it's widely suspected there's a backdoor for law enforcement.
- averageRoyalty 2y agoOn built in disk encryption? I'd be surprised if security researchers hadn't found that target. Got a source? Who credible suspects this?
- technick 2y agoNSA and FBI both approached previous bitlocker devs to insert backdoors in the early days. It's no secret Microsoft cooperates with federal government branches to ensure the government keeps using their products. Further because bitlocker is closed source, there hasn't been any outside research done on the code. https://boingboing.net/2013/09/11/how-the-feds-asked-microsoft-t.html https://boingboing.net/2013/09/11/how-the-feds-asked-microso... Some good comments here: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/26vm25/why_is_there_no_trust_in_the_security_of_bitlocker/ https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/26vm25/why_is_the... There's more resources on google and I remember attending a talk at either blackhat or defcon on why you shouldn't be using bitlocker.