I've found a Micro SD card on the pavement and it's encrypted

Hyburnate · 30 May 2019 at 11:56

A thread full of 'nerds' expecting to recover something from an encrypted drive without the encryption key

He's not based in Cheltenham...

MrRockliffe · 30 May 2019 at 12:01

BowdonUK said:
Well that was worse than the game of thrones ending!

Impossible

MartinPrince · 30 May 2019 at 12:02

Malevolence said:
Can we put that on your headstone when you're found locked inside a duffel bag in your bath?

That comment made my morning..

Maccy · 30 May 2019 at 12:05

We should still ban @mrk or scrap his MoH status

snips86x · 30 May 2019 at 12:13

MrRockliffe said:
Impossible

my first thought also lol

darael · 30 May 2019 at 12:18

Maccy said:
We should still ban @mrk or scrap his old BMW

I vote for the latter.

Maccy · 30 May 2019 at 12:18

darael said:
I vote for the latter.

Mass burning ceremony?

darael · 30 May 2019 at 12:19

Maccy said:
Mass burning ceremony?

Nah, put it to far better use - like holding baked beans.

mrk · 30 May 2019 at 15:14

I can hold beans

jsmoke · 30 May 2019 at 15:15

No way to decrypt it?

arknor · 30 May 2019 at 15:20

probably nothing interested on it anyway, on a lot of phones if you want the memory card and phone storage to appear as one you are forced to encrypt them?

probably from a windows phone or nudes stick it in with your family valuables and let it get passed down the generations until home computers are powerful enough to break the encryption with ease.

probably just nudes or nothing of interest though

Akagi · 30 May 2019 at 15:25

jsmoke said:
No way to decrypt it?

It would be pretty rubbish encryption if there was.

GregI · 30 May 2019 at 15:28

Reminds me of a story when a young lad found a sd card in Asda parking area. He put it in his pc to be greeted with nudes of one of the hottest girls in school.

Always encrypt.

loftie · 30 May 2019 at 16:09

mrk said:
Who encrypts a Micro SD card? I can't think of a single legit reason to do this as they go in phones and cameras which can't really deal with encrypted cards.

I think if you adopt the SD card to be part of the phones main storage, it'll encrypt it. Obviously it wasn't done on Android since it's bitlocker, I wonder if WinMo10 encrypts?

glenimp617 · 30 May 2019 at 16:11

The minute you said bitlocker I knew you wouldn't get anything

Bitlocker *shudders* fell foul of the bitlocker bug in Windows 8 when it first launched. Ended up losing thousands of family photos!

Turns out if you did a fresh install of windows 8 with an external disk attached, it would enable bitlocker without telling you. Rebuild the machine a second time and reattach the disk, bye bye data. Enter your recovery key.....erm, what key?

Raymond Lin · 30 May 2019 at 16:12

I suspect @mrk found a treasure map and don't want to share!

Akagi · 30 May 2019 at 16:16

I've already hacked into his computer and stolen the treasure map. X doth marketh thine spot.

azazl187 · 30 May 2019 at 17:04

Hyburnate said:
A thread full of 'nerds' expecting to recover something from an encrypted drive without the encryption key

He's not based in Cheltenham...

We could take it to the next nerd level and say that anything can be decrypted with the right tools. I used to work with SSL V3. There is a reason why it's on version 3 you know...

StriderX · 30 May 2019 at 17:16

Just send it to gchq, tell them it’s Corbyns communist agenda.

Hyburnate · 30 May 2019 at 17:20

azazl187 said:
We could take it to the next nerd level and say that anything can be decrypted with the right tools. I used to work with SSL V3. There is a reason why it's on version 3 you know...

Think you missed the Cheltenham bit, BitLocker is very secure, you'd need quite a computer/tool to decrypt it. I have no doubts that the intelligence services could.