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Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw (www.forbes.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/879557

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

The keys were very likely uploaded to the linked MS-account.
This is communicated as a backup in case you loose the key.

Breach of trust? Yep
Backdoor? Not very much.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    Uploading the key to the cloud is a backdoor. The encryption is only as secure as the your key.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Sure doesnt sound like that to me.

    A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product, embedded device (e.g. a home router), or its embodiment

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)

    Not very covert if it is offered to a user.
    If MS gives up the key that is stored plainly in their system, that is a problem. But not a backdoor.
    This is quite literally the police knocking on the front door and demanding the key.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    This is a meaningless, pedantic argument. Call it backdoor or something else, it does not matter. What matters is that it renders the encryption worthless.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    If I stick the key outside of the apartment the lock is also useless.

    In the end it's the carelessness of the user and not some nefarious scheme the big bad corp trying to come for your homework folder.

    You should really touch some grass and stop playing cyberpunk2077 so much. For your own mental being.

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