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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

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Post by WarmWash »

cguess wrote: post #146
0xCE0 wrote: post #115

Linux is the only hope at this point for the future of computing. Windows and macOS are just too risky to do any business with. Waste of all resources.

and yet... still unusable by the mass majority of people.

Linux is stuck because it's made and maintained by people who love linux.

Look at popular unix based OS's - Android, MacOS, iOS..

Whats the first thing they do? Take the command line out back and shoot it. Whereas for linux users, their is this l33t h4cker festishization of only using a keyboard to do everything. All these distros have an extremely robust CLI under the hood, and an afterthought quasi GUI on the surface. Just good enough for grandma to check her email and watch youtube.

Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers

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Post by riskable »

Macha wrote: post #138
onehair wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now this is even more alarming! Wireguard's creator has their Microsoft account suspended... Microsoft doesn't want to allow software that would allow the user to shield themselves, either by totally encrypting a drive, or by encrypting their network traffic!

Alternatively they asked copilot to scan for crypto projects and ban them

You think it would succeed at that? Come on. Copilot is for entertainment purposes only!

Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers

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Post by WarmWash »

megous wrote: post #165
cguess wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and yet... still unusable by the mass majority of people.

Not used does not mean not usable. Primary school aged children used MS-DOS without any documentation in 1990's. Pretty sure randomly selected people would be able to use modern Linux distro, when pre-installed just like windows are.

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Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers

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Post by raudette »

cguess wrote: post #161
tapoxi wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't really true anymore with the advent of Flatpak & Flathub. It's just an app store like any other platform. Even the majority of games work without tweaking.

I've run Linux as a daily driver recently Flatpak and Flathub still break all the time. Not to mention the last time I bumped my Nvidia drivers nothing decided to open anymore. Any OS that requires even once going to the command line is unusable for 99% of the population (and for me I just shouldn't ever have to).

I hit this recently - nVidia issues with a Flatpak, I spent about half an hour on it, gave up, and just decided to try the app out on another laptop.

Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers

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Post by b65e8bee43c2ed0 »

Topfi wrote: post #123
b65e8bee43c2ed0 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

likely chose to shut down rather than bend over, same as Lavabit a year prior. I find it more plausible than the other theory.

Fair assumption, but unlike Lava, TC never had customer/user data. The NSL/forced shut down theories also make little sense to me however, the fork was up by the end of the week and was easy to foresee. Kinda why this fascinates me so much, no theory I ever read survives basic scrutiny. Perhaps some things, we’ll never know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Torvalds#Linux_kernel_sta...

>When my oldest son [Linus Torvalds] was asked the same question: "Has he been approached by the NSA about backdoors?" he said "No", but at the same time he nodded. Then he was sort of in the legal free. He had given the right answer, [but] everybody understood that the NSA had approached him.

so the assumption here is that TC were also asked to accept "contributions" from bioluminescent individuals, and chose not to. "just use Bitlocker" was a deafeningly loud dogwhistle, don't you think?

Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers

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Post by c0balt »

HumanOstrich wrote: post #147
swordsith wrote: post #130

if michalesoft wants to take away our ability to sign drivers, they will find there is more than enough vulnerable easily exploited drivers we can use that are pre-signed online. Thank you micosawft!

Are you having a stroke?

Most likely just intentionally misspelling the name in the spirit of calling them Microslop.

Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers

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Post by whycome »

vstm wrote: post #65
unicornporn wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Microsoft doesn't want to allow software that would allow the user to shield themselves I don't think Microsoft cares (about anything besides making mo' money), but there are plenty of (state) actors that can influence the decision-making at Microsoft when it comes to these issues. No tinfoil needed.

> No tinfoil needed. That's what Big Tinfoil wants you to believe!

I heard it doesn’t even contain tin!

Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers

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Post by riskable »

windowliker wrote: post #133
teruakohatu wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am astounded that the maintainer and inventor of Wireguard is in this position. Microsoft even supports Wireguard in Azure Kubernetes Service.

Is this another example of their old modus operandi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... ?

No. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish was replaced by the AAA strategy: Acquire, Assimilate, Abandon. They were trying to be more Google-like with that "Abandon" step I think.

They've since moved on to the SSS strategy: Ship, Slip, Slop.

Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

iamnothere wrote: post #172
zx2c4 wrote: post #39

This 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…

Surprised to see you here. Thanks for all your hard work. Windows users are in a tough spot, but with the dawn of Copilot, nobody should be surprised. Frankly, those who remain with Windows after this latest betrayal have chosen their fate.

> those who remain with Windows after this latest betrayal have chosen their fate.

Ah. So almost every single business in the world… suckers?

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