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 ...
Backing up data is essential, but encrypting your files prevents unauthorized access. Encryption converts your files into unreadable data, ensuring that even if your backup is compromised, your ...
Storing recovery keys with Microsoft allows the company to unlock your disk. As someone that did helpdesk for consumers for a long time, MS having the code was the only reason we were able to recover ...