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.

This has been bugging me for weeks, i tried ignoring it from the back of my mind but i just cant make at peace with it. Why? cuz all my significant data are in my 320GB which is now inaccessible ...

BitLocker encrypts your hard drive and requires a key to decrypt it. Microsoft may give your key to law enforcement upon a valid request. Don't save your key to the cloud; instead, store it locally or ...