Besides Veracrypt, are there any real alternatives to Bitlocker for total drive encryption in Windows?
run Windows as a VM in linux
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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I have found that MS still blocks my signed and timestamped .msi files for at least a few days. From saving the downloads in Edge and then via Smartscreen once you get it downloaded. If I submit it manually for every update it tends to go better. If more people download and install it whitelists faster. But that is highly annoying, orwellian bullshit. Might even be anti-competitive or downright illegal.
I see the same behavior with my MSIs. I've had better luck with my MSIXs. As much as I like being Store-free, I have a June 2025 release of an MSI-based app that still gets dinged by Edge and again by SmartScreen. A different MSIX-based app, with almost no users, gets dinged by Edge but not by SmartScreen. It's the same certificate. I can never be sure what other users are seeing, though. tbh, I thought that I had bu…
Yeah, same here. It's a black box. Nobody knows how it works or what you can do to make it hassle free.
MS went from "developers, developers, developers" to being a nightmare for everyone involved.
I actually liked Visual Studio 6 and the old MSDN. Now I only wish they were gone.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#423This 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…
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Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
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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…
It would not surprise me if these actions are coming at the requests of governments. Strong encryption is one of the few things that challenges their monopoly on information; they have a very strong incentive to apply political pressure to the maintainers of these projects to, well, stop maintaining the projects. We've seen this in overt actions that the EU takes; in more covert actions that the U.S. government is su…
So like, TSMC, but syndicalist?
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#425This 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…
/tinfoil time
60 days, long enough for the US to exploit the vulnerabilities discovered by Claude Mythos, short enough to plausibly be bureaucratic corporate awfulness by Microsoft when all is said and done. Basically freezing you and other security software out of protecting the bad guys they particularly want to get at until after the bad guys get got, then everything goes back to normal and Microsoft says "oops, here, we fixed your access."
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#426I run a dual boot of windows and am currently dauly-driving CachyOS quite happily. I've been playing some Crimson desert and got some occasional crashes... But any other game I have has run smoothly. Their GUI tools for package management are thin wrappers on CLI tools, but are enough hand-holding that most people should navigate it fine. More devices worked out of the box for my with Linux than Windows. Just like if…
Cachy pushed a Limine update last weekend without any testing.
It broke everyone with secure boot signing.
Head proton versions are great, but games tend to turn into a laggy mess after a couple of hours and need regular restarts.
It's decent, but it's not all roses at all, and I wouldn't inflict it on non-techies yet.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the EU, under GDPR, it is legally required to explain automated profiling.
We have a EU dev we tried to have submit a GDPR request for human review on something on Facebook. There’s no apparent mechanism to do so. Support was clueless. The privacy email address responded weeks later with “not out department”.
As expected. However, since it's the law, there's some way to enforce it.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#428Update from a VP at Microsoft: https://x.com/shanselman/status/2041977121686585396?s=46
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#429Honest 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.
I would also like to know why is it excluded from Archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://www.true...
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#430Gone are the days when one can be anonymous on the Internet. Now, in some places, we have to prove our age and identity. This is leading to a digital ID. This will end badly.