A working theory is that they were paid off or threatened; in either case, older code might still be good. I’m hanging on until more news comes in.
I trust Bitlocker up to and including not at all. It’s not that Microsoft is “bad”, but they have a lot more to lose by not “cooperating”.
I’m wondering if Snowden/Greenwald et.al. were using TrueCrypt and the NSA has leaned on the unknown developers of TC and topped it off with an NDA....?
With an NDA this strangeness might be the only way the devs can alert us to some sort of funny business going on.
Speaking of Bitlocker,
Here is what happened to me when I went on vacation:
I planned to do some revision on a spreadsheet during the 14 hour drive to and from Buffalo. We had traveled a couple hours, took a breakfast break and I grabbed the laptop to get some work done. I fired it up and Bitlocker demanded that I enter the encryption key which I didn’t have (I was pretty sure it was in my desk). So I put the laptop away thinking I would enter the encryption key when I returned to work.
I get to work on Monday after being gone for a week and then look in the desk but no encryption key. Now I’m beginning to panic. I’m thinking, ‘Why is this happening? Nothing had changed on the laptop. I turn it off and on all of the time without any problems. Why is this happening?’
When I went to England/Bulgaria a couple months ago I had put a movie in the laptop. Before I went on vacation I removed the movie. I put the movie back in the laptop and it boots up like normal.
Weird. Do any Bitlocker users have an explanation for that?