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echo: osdebate
to: Mike N.
from: mike
date: 2007-03-22 17:14:10
subject: Re: Bitlocker and debuggers

From: mike 

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:46:11 -0400, Mike N.  wrote:

>
>http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/c61f2a12-8ae6-4957-b031-
97b4d762cf311033.mspx?mfr=true
>
>"Note:
> We strongly recommend that you do not run a debugger when BitLocker is
>enabled. Running a debugger on your BitLocker-enabled computer requires you
>to follow the recovery process every time you restart the computer."
>
>   This seems bizarre - what developer doesn't use a debugger?  Do they
>have to enter the recovery process on every reboot?
>
>   It smacks of part of the DRM-chain of command integrity protection
>sensing a possible chink in the armor, so they just force a recovery
>process to prevent the possibility of  watching any video larger than 480
>lines with a 3rd party viewer.


Here's another.
http://www.freeotfe.org/

(though I have not used that one...)

 /m

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