The US Government has quickly realized the utility of monopolies and no longer goes after them.

Not your keys not your {thing}

I have opted out of all cloud services in my windows installation; I use a passphrase, too (it is even before booting the computer). I feel like this is pretty safe

If you use a local windows account does it still upload your bitlocker key to M$?

This is why local account setup is so important on windows, and why microsoft makes it harder and harder each update.

The problems of centralization. Some economic sectors are centralized by nature, IT is not.

I don't know how many bad things Microsoft has to do before consumers realize they are a terrible company and you should stop buying their stuff.

So, forcing user to connect to Internet and log in to Microsoft account has more to do than tracking you and selling ads -- Microsoft may be intentionally helping law enforcement unlocking your computer -- and that's not a conspiracy.

> Johns Hopkins professor and cryptography expert Matthew Green raised the potential scenario where malicious hackers compromise Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure — something that has happened several times in recent years — and get access to these recovery keys.

Bitlocker isn't serious security. What is the easiest solution for non-technical users? Does FDE duplicate Bitlocker's funcationality?