Spread the loveMicrosoft provided the FBI with Bitlocker encryption keys. Microsoft, the world’s dominant provider of desktop and enterprise systems, complied with an FBI warrant and handed over BitLocker recovery encryption keys. This provided the FBI with access to the encrypted hard drives of laptops seized in a fraud investigation tied to pandemic unemployment benefits. By default, modern Windows installations tied to a Microsoft account store the BitLocker recovery key in Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. It should come as no shock that the government demanded cloud access.