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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 greenavocado »

miroljub wrote: post #72
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.

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 the software will be immune to attacks that would result in censorship of others

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

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Post by megous »

WarmWash wrote: post #183
megous wrote: post #165

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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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No I'm just telling you people are not as stupid as everyone assumes.

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

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Post by goolz »

WarmWash wrote: post #181
cguess wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 surfa…

I have had Bazzite on my gaming PC for a while now, never have to mess with the terminal much. It has come a long, long way. Even gentoo has become more accessible than ever. While some of this holds true, you most certainly do not need to live in the command line with some of these distros. Especially if you are just trying to play some games and browse the web, etc.

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

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Post by DHowett »

nslsm wrote: post #84
HauntingPin wrote: post #46

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Afaict, you can't disable driver signature enforcement permanently without disabling secure boot.

You also get a huge watermark that says "Test Mode" that takes up the entire screen (not kidding)

Three lines of text in 12-point font in the corner which can be covered by a window is hardly “the entire screen.”

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

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Post by rvnx »

bombcar wrote: post #194
riskable wrote: post #182

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

Watching Microsoft try to dogfood Copilot is entertaining to me, in a way.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/copilot-is-for-entertainme...

At least it reached its goal if it entertained you

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

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Post by fsflover »

iamniels wrote: post #23
nixpulvis wrote: post #12

We need a better way to sign and verify software. Clearly companies like Microsoft and Apple have not been good for the open source communities and are inhibiting innovation.

We need better OSes such that signing of software is not required to keep your computer safe.

Qubes OS is such OS: it runs everything in VMs with strong hardware isolation. My daily driver, can't recommend it enough.

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

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Post by HumanOstrich »

mapontosevenths wrote: post #156
HumanOstrich wrote: post #150

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From TFA: "I have encountered some challenges but the most serious one is that Microsoft terminated the account I have used for years to sign Windows drivers and the bootloader."

Yeah, and the first comment beneath that mentions that the most recent version is signed with the "2011 CA" that the article I link to discusses being deprecated. My guess was that he got caught up in some house-cleaning. My theory being that he's still signing his code the way malware authors also do and got flagged by some automated review that's meant to force him to go get WHCP certified or whatever the new route…

The article you linked says the change is rolling out in April in evaluation mode.

And if it were related to some kind of scan and malware flagging, the cert would have been revoked. It is not.

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

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Post by Jerrrrrrrry »

abcd_f wrote: post #95
Topfi wrote: post #85

Honest question, did we ever get an answer what was the cause for the sudden change from the original Truecrypt developer? Even if one doesn't want to maintain that project for purely private reasons, recommending Bitlocker as the drop-in-replacement always made it smell fishy to me.

It's more or less commonly accepted that its creator got jailed for being an arms dealer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

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

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Post by antiframe »

ngetchell wrote: post #60
onehair wrote: post #43

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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!

Or more likely, some automated security system flagged popular but suspicious apps for further review.

If you use an automated process to disable accounts but then state there is no appeals process available as they stated, then you are not to be trusted to be acting in good faith. Bad actors should be called out and not given the benefit of the doubt.
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