Microsoft Mysteriously Freezes Accounts for VeraCrypt, WireGuard, Windscribe
2026-04-08 21:51 UTC
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@wuffah@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 07:28
[Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw](https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/) They don’t want you to be able to use encryption they can’t control.
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@sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-09 01:22
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.
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@fireshell@kbin.earth 2026-04-09 04:00
Introduce mandatory signatures for driver files, they said. It's so safe, it's for your protection against viruses - they said. Keys can always be revoked from unscrupulous developers - they said. It will never be used to fight opensource, they said. It will never be a tool against inconvenient CIA applications - they said.
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@paraphrand@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 02:44
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?
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@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 16:38
Glad I got out when I did. I'm happy with Linux Mint, and most Windows users would be too, methinks.
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@jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2026-04-09 10:50
How many more of these do people really need to just get the fuck out from under Microsoft's umbrella?
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@Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2026-04-10 12:34
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.
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@Grass@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-09 18:55
Oh, better switch to bitlocker and onedrive then...
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-04-09 09:50
Probably an "accident'", until CIA got what they want.
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@partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2026-04-09 23:19
I keep dual boot with Windows available for my wife. About a year ago my Fedora install was stuck in a boot loop and I hadn’t used my PC in a good while, nor updated anything the last time I had used it. The only conclusion I can think of is either bitflips corrupted the boot process, or Windows fucked with my Fedora install at some point while — perhaps my wife’s activity allowed a Windows update through, I don’t know. They’re on separate drives though, so… I recovered my data and reinstalled, kept Windows but I am now extremely sensitive to any shenanigans from that drive. Reading this news has me considering to tell my wife she will have to use Windows from a VM on my PC.
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@tharien@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 22:28
*Thanks for evolving VPN, Wireguard. Here's a boot in your face!* *~Microsoft*
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@Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2026-04-10 06:31
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
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@Godort@lemmy.ca 2026-04-08 23:04
>"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.
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@piskertariot@lemmy.world 2026-04-08 22:33
Microslop doing microslop things.
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@palordrolap@fedia.io 2026-04-08 23:10
I'd like to believe that this means that these three pieces of software actually work and that someone in high office has decided that that is unacceptable. Paranoid authoritarians really do not like ordinary people having access to secure communications and personal privacy. That might be an avenue they can use to organise and elect someone who isn't a paranoid authoritarian, and that won't do. On the other hand, these pieces of software might already be compromised and this is all an elaborate double-bluff. In which case it's time for a few well placed communications over purportedly secure channels that would be guaranteed to generate an authoritarian response. Which they'll then have to pretend they didn't read until it's too late. I'm talking organising - horrors - peaceful protests. They really don't like those. They have to use their brains, or someone else's, in order to find a good excuse to stick the boot in.
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@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2026-04-08 23:14
No Such Activity at play.
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@bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2026-04-08 23:27
Why the fuck would any of those organizations still being using Microsoft to begin with?
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@rarsamx@lemmy.ca 2026-04-10 14:24
Stop spreading FUD. What do you mean no access to encryption of any kind? That phrase makes zero sense. Of course they want you to use backdoored encryption.
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@rarsamx@lemmy.ca 2026-04-11 03:42
Hahaha. Wosh! You have zero ability to infer clear sarcasm.
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@trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 2026-04-09 14:50
Pretty wild to see them this brazen. They _really_ don't want citizens to have access to encryption of any kind. What's the tipping point?