When it recently became known that Microsoft had helped the FBI decrypt BitLocker-encrypted data carriers, there was widespread outrage. People were quick to talk about “backdoors,” broken encryption, and how BitLocker was clearly unreliable. But as is so often the case, the real problem lies less in the technology itself than in who has control over the encryption key.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://cryptomator.org/blog/2026/02/15/bitlocker-fbi-and-the-illusion-of-control