The Operating System IS the Back Door
(www.forbes.com)
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Wait, you can store your bitlocker passwords, on microsoft's cloud?
Well that's just retarded.
I'm not fool enough to think the system is foolproof or doesn't have some other backdoor, but that's just leaving your keys under your doormat levels of security.
Bitlocker as a it is currently implemented is for retards. For starters the default settings only requires a TPM, you don't need to set a password to encrypt your shit since Windows will use the TPM to store the key. Which sounds bad, but it gets worse since the TPM can just refuse to spit out the key if you just looked at it wrong so you need the 48 character recovery key which Normie McRetardson likely didn't save it somewhere safe(which is why microsoft made it default in Windows 10 to upload the key if you had a microsoft account linked).
But wait it gets worse Windows stores the key directly in the TPM, doesn't even try to encrypt the key with the user's password so anyone with an Raspberry Pi(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTl4vEednkQ) can get the encryption key as long as the computer can boot to the login screen rendering the whole thing effectively pointless.
Really need to use cryptocurrency security thought processes for secure data. Meaning for max security keys are only stored in physical or mental form. Never online.
Cloud-lovers are just naive to security entirely. "Yes, we, Microsoft, promise to keep your data safe." and they believe it. Or they will say they have nothing to hide. I don't have anything even remotely criminal beyond the gray area of wrongthink, but I also don't want all my shit provided to train AIs and used to profile me.