BitLocker, Windows' built-in encryption tool, no longer trusts your SSD's hardware protection
To paraphrase Fox Mulder, trust no self-encrypting SSD. As of the latest Windows 10 update, Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption tool that’s built into Pro and Enterprise versions will no longer assume that self-encrypting SSDs are, you know, actually securing their data. After researchers demonstrated last year that flaws in many self-encrypting SSDs could let baddies bypass that encryption thanks to a mixture of poor security implementations and secret Master Passwords set by the SSD manufacturers, Microsoft has closed that potential loophole by having BitLocker not trust hardware-based encryption by default.