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<blockquote data-quote="SpiderWeb" data-source="post: 1092342" data-attributes="member: 88686">[USER=114717]@bazang[/USER] Did you miss the Snowden security disclosures? Mass surveillance is real and governments are interested in decrypting user data. Maybe not your own government, but a foreign government might and like you said Microsoft is beholden to any jurisdiction. If M$ has your encryption key on OneDrive, what is stopping China from demanding it to see your data even though you don&#039;t live there? And it doesn&#039;t even have to be the typical boogeymen like China or Russia. Australia and the UK require companies to comply with decryption of data and UK-USA agreement aka Five Eyes requires that the US, Canada, UK, New Zealand and Australian intelligence agencies share their intelligence so the US government gets that data indirectly even if they claim they never demanded it from you.But, I truly believe Microsoft has primarily doing this out of goodwill so that people don&#039;t accidentally lock themselves out of all their data when they do a fresh install or buy a new computer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SpiderWeb, post: 1092342, member: 88686"] [USER=114717]@bazang[/USER] Did you miss the Snowden security disclosures? Mass surveillance is real and governments are interested in decrypting user data. Maybe not your own government, but a foreign government might and like you said Microsoft is beholden to any jurisdiction. If M$ has your encryption key on OneDrive, what is stopping China from demanding it to see your data even though you don't live there? And it doesn't even have to be the typical boogeymen like China or Russia. Australia and the UK require companies to comply with decryption of data and UK-USA agreement aka Five Eyes requires that the US, Canada, UK, New Zealand and Australian intelligence agencies share their intelligence so the US government gets that data indirectly even if they claim they never demanded it from you. But, I truly believe Microsoft has primarily doing this out of goodwill so that people don't accidentally lock themselves out of all their data when they do a fresh install or buy a new computer. [/QUOTE]

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