[Win+x, i ], my brother in Gates! But yeah, I share your cynicism of their priorities.

Microsoft built the encryption in Windows so know how to get around it. In theory that remains a closely guarded secret but there are the warrants and the NSA and…

That’s basically what I thought when I saw this - there’s no way anything is happening that quickly, this is just outputting “done!” over and over.

I don’t disagree, but the article also mentioned that they’ve already sold their first commercial deployment so I don’t think it’s entirely vaporware…?

Isn’t that arguably the nature of encryption, though? If you lose the key, you’re SOL by design.

John Oliver did a segment on this about a month ago, but yeah, you just nailed it.