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It's good, for privacy and all of course, but I remember here a Dell BIOS upgrade that basically wiped the TPM2.0 and so windows was asking for the recovery bitlocker key at boot. I have them on a encrypted USB key and anyway I can access my MS account from another device to find the key and type it.
But I'm sure a lot of people will basically say "well, fuck, I don't have the key", guaranteed.
Which brings me to the question, how is Microsoft doing this, where will people's keys be located? Do they force everybody to put in an USB stick?
If you have a microsoft account that you've attached to at least one windows profile, then that machine has been registered to that account, and the bitlocker key will be stored and kept to be viewed and retrieved by logging into their microsoft account, if the machine has not been registered to a microsoft account you will either have to have jotted the very lengthy key down or have saved it to a usb