it's like microsoft has nothing better to do other than keep digging the hole to burry windows as mainstay operating system deeper and deeper with every new day.

Relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/538/

This isn't even about Microsoft or BitLocker. This is about the U.S.A.: anyone who thrusts the rule of law in the U.S. is a fool.

Yes, the American government retrieves these keys "legally". But so what? The American courts won't protect foreigners, even if they are heads of state or dictators. The American government routinely frees criminals (the ones that donate to Republicans) and persecutes lawful citizens (the ones that cause trouble to Republicans). The "rule of law" in the U.S. is a farce.

And this is not just about the U.S. Under the "five eyes" agreement, the governments of Canada, UK, Autralia and New Zealand could also grab your secrets.

Never trust the United States. We live in dangerous times. Ignore it at your own risk.

This is disappointing but I wonder if this is quid pro quo. Microsoft and Nadella want to appear to be cooperating with the government, so they are given more government contracts and so they don’t get regulatory problems (like on antitrust or whatever).

[flagged]

Water is wet. More news at 11

> The case involved several people suspected of fraud related to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program

If it were preventing a mass murder I might feel differently...

But this is protecting the money supply (and indirectly the governments control).

Not a reason to violate privacy IMO, especially when at the time this was done these people were only suspected of fraud, not convicted.