lovebeans's comments

On: Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered

[lovebeans]

Yes and this is a good thing. No organization, no matter how large or powerful, should be beyond the reach of the law.

[preisschild → lovebeans]

Ideally they wouldnt even have this key / the private data in the first place

[lovebeans → preisschild]

The user can opt out of this if they want.

[direwolf20 → lovebeans]

How?

[stabbles → lovebeans]

That's a false dichotomy. You can hold an organization accountable to the law without requiring them to maintain a "master key" to your private data.

[lovebeans → stabbles]

It isn't required.

[Dylan16807 → lovebeans]

I have no idea what you mean. If the user keys were protected, that would not put Microsoft beyond the reach of the law. To Microsoft it's just a few bytes they never do anything with.