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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by grrowl on Thursday May 29, 2014 @02:49AM (#7815074)
Not "backdoors" but it seems Microsoft stores the BitLocker decryption key, based on this leaked slide (just found on twitter): https://twitter.com/TheBlogPirate/status/471759810644283392/...

edit: Confirmed Microsoft stores your recovery key on their servers if you're not connected to a domain: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows-8/bitlocker-recov...

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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by cradle on Thursday May 29, 2014 @05:10AM (#7815396)
Microsoft storing your key is opt-in and optional.

Whether or not they superstitiously store it anyway is a different question.

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