I'm not sure if anyone saw the news, but apparently Crucial's and Samsung's self-encrypting drives have very weak keys or key verification and is easily bypassed to get access to the encrypted data.

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The BitLocker encryption method and Cipher strength you set as default is only applied when you turn on BitLocker for a drive. Any changes you make will not affect a drive already encrypted by ...

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bitlocker problem, turned off accidentally, with SSD, now can't turn on again without  MS asking to encrypt part or all of drive Hi, I had BL working fine with my Samsung SSD Evo, however, ...