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
#2Microsoft disabled the developer's certificate so no windows releases can be made.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#3Jesus, sourceforge is still on the go?
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#4It's like LibreOffice all over again: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-devel...
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#5Jesus, sourceforge is still on the go?
Might be it even not using all your code to train AI. Or at least not asking your explicit permission to do it.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#6They need to get some tech site like Arstechnica to write about it, like they did when neocities couldn't get ahold of bing. The only way to contact these tech companies to speak to a real human being and not a chatbot is if you know somebody who works there or if the media writes about it.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#7Jesus, sourceforge is still on the go?
And unfortunately some projects exclusively use sourceforge. Which breaks some of my CI pipelines.
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#8Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#9Microsoft disabled the developer's certificate so no windows releases can be made.
As someone who is just planning to publish signed desktop software for Windows, this is deeply worrying. What reasons could there be for cancelling a certificate, especially when it has been used for years and the identity is already established?
Are there some ways to combat such decisions legally?
Re: Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
#10Looks like Linux and some of the BSDs are the only remaining truly open OSes.