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Without a back door, or the recovery key, there is no known mechanism to recover
data from a system which has been shut down completely. And if BitLocker is used
in conjunction with a trusted platform module chip, the hard drive becomes “tied”
to that particular PC. This means that in cases where computers are seized by law
enforcement, the entire PC will have to be shipped to the computer forensics lab.
And there are no guarantees that law enforcement, or anyone else, for that matter,
will be able to recover the data that resides on the BitLocker volume. In summary,
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