First Commercial Tool to Bypass BitLocker Released

Rob Williams

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Back with the Windows Vista launch, Microsoft delivered a new tool that aimed to protect its customer's data with sophisticated encryption and a hardware-based switch that would either allow or deny access to said data. The hardware side of things requires a TPM chip on the motherboard, and with the help of BitLocker, an encryption key is stored, and required for future access to the data on the drive.

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