Decrypt a USB flash drive encrypted with BitLocker

[16xypjnxlrew]

Have you made any "system image backup" of the C:\ drive? Not System Restore.

Have you ever imaged your system to an external drive using Macrium or Acronis or something like that?

Or have you ran a cloud backup program like Backblaze?

Those are pretty much your only hopes of finding the recovery key.

No, I never created a backup image of the system from the disk because I only have one hard drive. There was no cloud backup either

[NotATether]

No, I never created a backup image of the system from the disk because I only have one hard drive. There was no cloud backup either

It is useful!

Think about it for the future.

Personally I have OneDrive and Backblaze backing up the files on my computer. OneDrive only backs up documents and stuff while Backblaze uploads everything, and then on top of that I also have a custom Windows system image creation powershell script that images to my external drive, and also does a Windows Backup and Restore after it is done.

It's already saved my ass before after Codex accidentally deleted all the files on my C:\ partition, especially the Backblaze where I pulled my unpublished app's source code from, which I had thought was gone for good because I didn't push the git commits.

[16xypjnxlrew]

Provide sources of your claim when someone managed to crack a "good" Bitcoin private key!

As of 2019, they had only managed to discover 7 private keys. I don’t know how many they had discovered by 2025, but it seems that all those claims about spending billions years to crack a key are just a smokescreen to make everyone believe it’s difficult or impossible similar to the illusion created by the Enigma machine. These people showed the whole world that this is a myth and that encryption has weaknesses built into it not to mention something like a 48-digit recovery key

Back into the rabbit hole, I quickly discovered the Large Bitcoin Collider.

https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about

Wow this is a serious project.
Basically thousands of distributed servers generating and checking 26 Trillions (!!!) of private keys on a daily basis.
Over the first three years, they managed to find 7 private keys. That’s a lot! I imagined the odds were much lower., but probably there is some kind of bug in some wallet utilising a suboptimal random number generator to create keys. (Further research needed here!)