Just got a Wireguard update on Windows a minute ago, so seems resolved?
Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects
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#12Discussed here yesterday:
Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates (575 points, 239 comments)
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#13Modern computing does not make me feel good. Really hate this signing business controlled by the OS vendors. I get the added security benefits, but I'm not sure the tradeoff is worth it.
True, but there is yet a one major OS that allows you to run whatever you see fit on your computer. If you are really disgusted by those moves, you have a time to switch. If enough people switch, then we can just forget about that garbage.
At this point, windows is already becoming a poor implementation of wine anyway.
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#14Alongside talk from the UK Labour government about intervening on VPNs, I'm getting uneasy vibes about this move, especially since Microsoft is one of the most government-friendly corporations in the big tech arena. The surveillance state is growing more sinister every day (especially in the UK), but the efforts are somewhat thwarted by the existence of VPNs. Once they find a way to undermine VPNs, the UK govt will h…
The problem is that the social media companies have not been dealing with abusive posts of various sources. Governments can't take action against the bad posters are they are from another Government (and in some cases are employed by that government to cause trouble). Thus Governments have to take actions which they can control, unfortunately these actions will affect more than the bad abusers.
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#15I feel like Hanselman is one of the few old generation Microsoft people. When he leaves it’ll be young people who don’t know Microsoft and have no understanding of or connection with Microsoft products.
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#16In the tech world, security is mostly just a theater , it is used to push though unwanted and unpopular things, like access control, privacy invasion, etc...
All this signing business, leads to one party having the final say, and guess what, they are going to abuse that power...
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#17Also: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/wireguard-vpn-developer-ca... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702161 )
this source is a bit better and answers a couple questions.
first the verification wasn't just "click this link to prove you own this email"
>That account verification process meant that developers were required to upload their government-issued ID before they were allowed to publish potentially highly sensitive code to the broader Windows user base.
Also according to at least one affected user they didn't actually get notified of the process.
> “Microsoft never sent me any notification at all about this. I’ve looked in every inbox in every spam folder in every mail log, and zero, nothing, zilch,” Donenfeld said.
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#18Alongside talk from the UK Labour government about intervening on VPNs, I'm getting uneasy vibes about this move, especially since Microsoft is one of the most government-friendly corporations in the big tech arena. The surveillance state is growing more sinister every day (especially in the UK), but the efforts are somewhat thwarted by the existence of VPNs. Once they find a way to undermine VPNs, the UK govt will h…
CCP-level control over access to information is not actually very tight, technologically nor ideologically, but it does enable a form of rule-by-law which is far more useful.
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#19Alongside talk from the UK Labour government about intervening on VPNs, I'm getting uneasy vibes about this move, especially since Microsoft is one of the most government-friendly corporations in the big tech arena. The surveillance state is growing more sinister every day (especially in the UK), but the efforts are somewhat thwarted by the existence of VPNs. Once they find a way to undermine VPNs, the UK govt will h…
The problem is that the social media companies have not been dealing with abusive posts of various sources. Governments can't take action against the bad posters are they are from another Government (and in some cases are employed by that government to cause trouble). Thus Governments have to take actions which they can control, unfortunately these actions will affect more than the bad abusers.
You assume your premise. No the government actually doesn't 'have to' take action about mean things on the internet. The UK has such an obsession with regulating what is, essentially, politeness.
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#20In the tech world, security is mostly just a theater , it is used to push though unwanted and unpopular things, like access control, privacy invasion, etc... All this signing business, leads to one party having the final say, and guess what, they are going to abuse that power...
Sacrifice principles for pragmatism and you lose both.