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Microsoft issues mitigation for critical Windows 11 BitLocker flaw exploited with a USB key — "Can't come up with an explanation beside the fact that this was intentional." (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 4 days ago by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world

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[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That clarification of yours is massively important

I think my mistake was assuming I was on a security related community, where this would be understood, instead of PC masterrace.

Your initial comment sounds as if there is a PoC from Canada on how to circumvent the PIN for the Bitlocker keys.

It's a meme joke, referencing this: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/she-goes-to-another-school

the only way they could put microSLOP at fault for that would be if they could find that microSLOP was backing up encryption keys in the recovery environment / boot files somewhere

Seems unlikely. The WRE is like 32MiB in size, and most of that consists of static binaries. Not much info is saved there, except for some log files. If the bitlocker keys were there, they would have already been found by someone else.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Seems unlikely.

That's what I'm saying. Not impossible though to hide key weakening info somewhere.