Microsoft confirms FBI can access BitLocker keys via valid legal orders Cloud accounts store unencrypted keys, enabling law enforcement access; local accounts avoid this risk Senator Wyden criticizes ...
In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...
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WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption has long been a major selling point. It means that Meta can’t decrypt and read your messages; the encryption keys are only stored on the devices that send and receive ...