Can someone please explain the implications for current Windows users of VeraCrypt?
No new features, no security patches.
Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
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Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#272This is the same problem I'm currently facing with WireGuard. No warning at all, no notification. One day I sign in to publish an update, and yikes, account suspended. Currently undergoing some sort of 60 days appeals process, but who knows. That's kind of crazy: what if there were some critical RCE in WireGuard, being exploited in the wild, and I needed to update users immediately? (That's just hypothetical; don't f…
It has been clear for a while that certain providers and services need to be regulated as utilities - Microsoft, Google, Apple, Visa, Mastercard, and soon Openai and Anthropic. It should be illegal for these companies, just like utilities, to deny service to anyone or any entity in good standing for dues. There is little hope for getting this through in the US where most politicians of any stripe hate the public, and…
I've gotten business verification for Microsoft before. The kind you need in order to get certain oauth scopes for their O365 platform.
Do not discount complete, total, utter, profound fucking incompetence as the driving reason behind this.
Getting the business verification was an astounding shitshow. With a registered C corp and everything, massively unclear instructions, UI nestled in a partner site with tons of dead ends. And then even after all the docs, it took another week because -- in an action that nobody could possibly have ever foreseen -- we had two different microsoft accounts due to a cofounder buying ONE LICENSE of O365 for excel and doing domain verification because it suggested it.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#273https://community.osr.com/t/locked-out-of-microsoft-partner-... Could be a related issue to this? Maybe Microsoft just doesn’t want driver developers for whatever reason.
its my computer. its my os. i own it. I paid my money and bought the program. not them. I am free to install whatever software and modify whatever kernel components as i see fit. I am so sick and tired of the continued erosion of the ownership model. I dont want to rent anything. But corporations see it as an avenue to increase revenue. We pay more, for less. What else is new.
So why don't you stop using the OS that has a completely different approach to computing?
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
I blew the lid on X today: https://x.com/i/status/2041698657368703484
The (new?) X link made me think for a moment you got the username @i
The website formerly known as Twitter has never cared about the username part of the URI; it only looks at the status number and will redirect you to the canonical version if it wasn't.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
My kids grew up on Gnome essentially, I can tell you Win11 is a lot more confusing to them, not just because because they grew up on Gnome, there is just so much more ... stuff. And notifications and flashy things and news and weather apps and they all want your attention. Gnome is much more iPadOS like (minus that horrible concoction called the App Store). Sure, if you're all in on MS365 (like all schools here in th…
And someone once raised their kids speaking Klingon, that isn't a good excuse on why it's a language others should use. For the vast majority of people MS365 is a requirement, but really the issue is that even minor fixes require the command line on Linux and that makes it unusable.
None of this is true
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe time for a custom license that would require M$ to sign up for special T&Cs if they want to use this software? Who cares if it's OSI-approved or not, a line saying "M$, Google, and the like need written permission for every use case" would help to make those leeches honest. Just learn from the JSLint example.
This license modifier already exists for others to use (I can't post the direct links here because this site will sanction me for doing so) plus n-word dot com hosts information about the plus n-word license which purports: - The software will not be used or hosted by western corporations that promote censorship - The software will not be used or hosted by compromised individuals that promote censorship - Users of th…
It's even GPL compatible, because the GPL makes provision for additional notice requirements.
That would be both hilarious and horrifying if the only thing stopping the corporate dystopia is that Microsoft doesn't want to say the N word.
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Isn't this Microsoft abusing their quasi-monopoly as a consumer PC OS vendor? If it weren't for the current administration, I'd say it's time for regulatory action.
The time for regulatory action against Microsoft was thirty years ago and the need for it has only grown since then. The FTC wasn't doing their job between 1980-2020 because of their ridiculous standard of, "if it doesn't raise consumer prices, it must be allowed." This lead to massive consolidation in many industries which of course ended up raising prices and hurting consumers anyway. Recently they've had some wins…
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1) its weird to disparage someone that is trying to help, no matter how small or large of an effect you think the help will have 2) they got 120,000 views, 400 retweets, and 1.7k likes in ~12 hours. that is a good amount of awareness. certainly more than i would get from a tweet. certainly more help than whatever you are doing here.
Their tweet was trying to help. Their comment here is bragging about how important they think they are.
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Agree. Single point of failure. One developer, one account. Crazy.
How would more than one account help in this scenario, exactly?
Any account can sign any (same) piece of software. Of course Microsoft could detect the it's signing a software related to a banned signed and ban the new account. So veracrypt (and wireguard) is stuck.
It's outrageous. MS is simply enforcing some Government crackdown on encryption software that would interfere with backdoors.
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It has been clear for a while that certain providers and services need to be regulated as utilities - Microsoft, Google, Apple, Visa, Mastercard, and soon Openai and Anthropic. It should be illegal for these companies, just like utilities, to deny service to anyone or any entity in good standing for dues. There is little hope for getting this through in the US where most politicians of any stripe hate the public, and…
We need a law that a human representative can be spoken to within 24 hours or directly when something critical happens. Also “there is no appeal possible” should be plain illegal.
I understand the sentiment, but.. do you realize how much more expensive that would make all these services?
I don’t know the number. But personally I think using the services and ‘simply’ only use them if the disappearance isn’t catastrophic and have the price be low or free while it works isn’t too bad a trade-off.
Admittedly that’s a big ‘if.’