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“Not every ‘WTF micro$oft’ moment is a slam dunk,” he tweeted. “I’ve emailed VeraCrypt personally and we’ll get him unblocked. I’ve already talked to Jason at WireGuard. Not everything is a conspiracy, sometimes it’s literally paperwork.”
Funny how paperwork never really seems to be a problem for any other OS.
It’s not a conspiracy, just plain old incompetence.
The older I’ve gotten (or the further into late stage capitalism), the less I’m inclined to accept “Never attribute to malice, that which can be adequately explained by incompetence” (- Napoleon, perhaps) and the more I subscribe to “Why not both?”.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Nice.
“It’s probably malice.”
- Me (2026)
There’s definitely plenty of evidence for both at MS.
Few journals criticize Apple (and Apple doesn’t reveal these things that often) and the rest have no mandatory certification.
Microslop doing microslop things.
My guess?
NSA is currently figuring out how to insert backdoors into all these things.
You see, the last backdoor they used all the time, well… people figured it out.
So, they had to ban uh, checks notes, apparently all routers, basically.
So, now they need a new backdoor into literally everything.
Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw
They don’t want you to be able to use encryption they can’t control.
Tbf they tell you that your keys will be uploaded…
Probably the government is the one telling them to do it, the governments I should say. By probably I mean absolutely although they will be given their own enticements for doing such things.
Wow, that’s pretty damming. Three of them? This can’t be a random absurd error like it plausibly could have been for the first one reported.
There must be a really big flaw in their system if three VPN devs just “missed an email”. Is Microsoft sending the emails from a bullshit sus address?
Eh, it could be just a vibe code blunder, given this hit a suitably large number of others.
Which would be equally damning.
Don’t give benefit of the doubt to fascist. They thrive on that.
Hmfhh, quite so, dropped this…
/s
Glad I got out when I did.
I’m happy with Linux Mint, and most Windows users would be too, methinks.
To be honest most could do 99% of their pc work with a foss privacy focused browser.
Mysteriously? Really?
The reason was clear, they never got the email for account verification, and were locked out. MS messed up.
I really hate headlines these days.
Oh, better switch to bitlocker and onedrive then…
No Such Activity at play.
Thanks for evolving VPN, Wireguard. Here’s a boot in your face! ~Microsoft
My conspiracy theory: those signing keys are very “tasty” maybe Microsoft was aware that some state-sponsored attacker got hold on them and blacklisted for everyone’s safety.
Imagine what would happen if NSA or that other Israeli spy company could sign fake veracrypt or Wireshark binaries
Why the fuck would any of those organizations still being using Microsoft to begin with?
These were the developer accounts to sign their software to run on Windows
My dude. It is literally in the first paragraph of the article.
