Cornballer@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.world•Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoorEnglish3 hoursSomebody on twitter “reverse engineered” the exploit. Apparently ms shipped debug code in production. At least it’s not called Backdoor_FBI outright. How it works: Recovery tools look for a config file called RecoverySimulation.ini on the OS drive If Active=Yes, it enables “test mode” for the recovery tools Test mode unlocks your BitLocker drive but a flag called FailRelock tells it to skip relocking cmd.exe spawns with full access to your “encrypted” drive 20
Cornballer@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.world•Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than everEnglish7 hoursApparently they are amazing aides for the visually impaired. full thread 586%6
Somebody on twitter “reverse engineered” the exploit. Apparently ms shipped debug code in production. At least it’s not called Backdoor_FBI outright.