{"id":105784,"date":"2026-01-23T07:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=c037a5f277f9aaaa6536b1e425d7b688"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:30:32","slug":"microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-encrypted-data-exposing-major-privacy-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=105784","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/thomasbrewster\/2026\/01\/22\/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data\/\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Mmmyep.  Bitlocker with a Microsoft account is barely more than theater, it manages to keep most of the fragility and overhead of a sophisticated encryption system, but - having done the recovery flow for someone's machine that b0rked - even without the power of state threats, it's not that hard to shake the retained keys out of Microsoft. \nFun that non-nerds are starting to learn about bullshit vendor-bypassable security that the cypherpunks have been screaming about for 35 years due to (this is a euphemism I find myself using uncomfortably often of late) \"the geopolitical situation.\"<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46731694\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=105784\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}