According to the researcher, YellowKey appears unusual for a previously unknown security bug. Nightmare-Eclipse explained that the flaw can be reproduced by copying an attached "FsTx" folder...

cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/4133762

A researcher known as “Nightmare-Eclipse” recently released YellowKey, a security vulnerability that allegedly enables a full bypass of BitLocker’s full-volume encryption. The researcher described YellowKey as one of the most “insane” flaws they have ever encountered and has also accused Microsoft of potentially embedding a legitimate backdoor in BitLocker’s data protection system.

To no-one’s surprise

  • themurphy@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    The legally have to because of the US Cloud Act.

    Every single US company has a backdoor because of this.