Recently Bought a Windows Computer? Microsoft Probably Has Your Encryption Key
I'm going out on a limb and suggest that Micah Lee understands why Windows works this way: because Windows is the most popular operating system in the world, and the overwhelming majority of Windows users don't understand how encryption works, and are shocked and dismayed to discover that losing their key more or less forfeits all the data on their disk.<p>It's straightforward to set Bitlocker up so that Microsoft doesn't hold a backup key.<p>Microsoft is doing what their userbase wants them to do. I'm not sure what's interesting about this story.