A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it
2026-05-17 15:23 UTC
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@melfie@lemmy.zip 2026-05-17 23:18
I guess anyone who uses ShitLocker is shit out of LUKS.
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@Dalraz@lemmy.ca 2026-05-17 16:51
Seems like every week there is another reason why I’m thankful I switched to Linux a few years ago.
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@bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 2026-05-17 16:17
Good. We always knew it was there. They sold their soul to the NSA decades ago. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-the-nsa-stopped-trying-to-prevent-the-spread-of-encryption-and-decided-to-just-break-it-instead-4569969/
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2026-05-17 20:59
Of course they did. They have no interest in protecting your privacy and every interest in making you think they do. I would’ve been way more surprised to learn there wasn’t a backdoor.
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@in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 2026-05-17 16:08
LUKS, never had these problems…Too bad Win11 won’t boot from it.
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@tomiant@piefed.social 2026-05-17 17:45
I am so shocked! Well I instantly fucking knew it the second I learned about BitLocker back when and never EVER trusted it, but still, it is shocking!
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@SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2026-05-18 04:06
Yet another reason to switch to Linux.
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2026-05-17 21:12
For anything I want to actually keep private, I only trust the software that I wrote. But LUKS is good enough for most stuff.
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@Deebster@infosec.pub 2026-05-17 23:58
This Chaotic Eclipse/Nightmare Eclipse is the same one whose opening post read: I never wanted to reopen a blog and a new github account to drop code… But someone violated our agreement and left me homeless with nothing. They knew this will happen and they still stabbed me in the back anyways, this is their decision not mine. I’m guessing there’s plenty more to come. Kinda funny that they’re targeting Microsoft and yet using GitHub to share the PoCs.
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@DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 2026-05-17 18:03
The entire Microsoft, Apple and Google ecosystem is USA backdoors. That’s why I call it American spyware.
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@an0nym0us_dr0ne@europe.pub 2026-05-18 08:40
No Shit Sherlock. Not as if it would be required by US law to have a backdoor or anything… No no, PatriotACT, CloudACT and stuff like PRISM just do not exist…
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@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-18 09:01
If you’re running Windows, always assume that if the US Authorities or Microsoft itself want to spy on you and an individual or on do a little industrial espionage on your company (which US agencies also do), they’ll just use a backdoor already present or at worse push an update to your machines(s) allowing them to take them over covertly. Treat any and all software made by US companies as a foreign agent. All the shit that the US Government and companies say about China, is pure Projection - the result of a mental process of “what would we do if we were the ones making those devices”. (And, yeah, China probably does it to) If it ain’t Open Source, you got it as a binary or can self-update that software is somebody else’s agent and you’re trusting their ethics and goodwill when you have it running in your system outside a sandbox.
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@Miller@lemmy.world 2026-05-17 15:47
You mean that thing everyone knew about since the authorities derailed open-source TrueCrypt and forced them to message their users that they should migrate to BitLocker?
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@jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2026-05-18 10:56
Microsoft is a malware developer, plain and simple.
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@saykee@lemmy.world 2026-05-18 11:01
So glad I switched from proton and so glad my previous workplace uses BitLocker 🙌🏻
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@thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-18 03:04
more evidence that michaelslop binbows is trash linux is better luks wouldnt do this to u