Buelldozer

Microsoft should not have the keys to decrypt Bitlocker ever.

Windows is a closed source and proprietary commercial Operating System. Microsoft is going to do whatever they like with it. If enough people get angry about an issue they may change their mind but that doesn't change the nature of Microsoft's ownership over their products.

I've been participating in discussion about what Microsoft should and shouldn't do since the late 80s and it pretty much boils down to this: You need to select and use software that works the way you want it to. So if you don't want MS to have your disk encryption key then don't use Windows. If you don't want MS to have access to your documents then don't put them on any system that MS has control over.

It can be terrible inconvenient to protect your data in this way but this part and parcel of the privacy movement.

It may seem that way but I'm really not. An encryption key is just data. It's critical security data to be sure but it's still data and like other data you shouldn't share anything that you wouldn't want made public.

Don't want MS to cough up your data when asked? Then don't give it to them. In regards to your BL key that means storing it another way, such as on a jump drive or printing it out.

In the end if you have data of any type that you absolutely DO NOT want made public then you need to retain that data locally. If that means leaving the Microsoft or any other ecosystem then that's the price that needs paid for keeping your data under your control.

This is the foundation of the entire privacy movement.

The encryption key is data, don't give it to ANYONE. "Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead."

The word "Gave" is really doing some heavy lifting in that title. Microsoft produced the keys in response to a warrant as required by law.

If you don't want a company, any company, to produce your data when given a warrant then you can't give the company that data. At all. Ever.

Not fast food joints, not Uber, not YouTube, not even the grocery store.

It's easy to do. Mine is a reolink piped through Home Assistant.

Too many people thought that Twitters Blue Checkmark meant you were special. That attitude carries over to Bluesky and being verified.

Classic Liberal, yes.

You are not spending tens of millions annually and thus Microsoft doesn't give a shit about you. They literally would not piss on you if you were on fire.

I dunno, at least some of planned datacenters ARE doing that. For example an absolutely ENORMOUS Solar Farm is being built in Cheyenne, Wyoming for another Microsoft DC. For a previous MS DC a big ass wind farm was built. Meta is building a fuck you sized DC in Cheyenne and recently inked a deal with Terrapower for a natrium powered reactor.

I dislike having to defend these assholes but the Green Energy thing has been done, is being done, and they have definite plans to do more of it.

I promise that whatever country you live in also has levels to the body armor worn by their special police forces and military.

Ohhh I like this one!