Veracrypt Project Update
sourceforge.net - 273 poäng - 66 kommentarer - 11589 sekunder sedan
Kommentarer (17)
- zx2c4 - 2478 sekunder sedanThis 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 freak out!) In that case, Microsoft would have my hands entirely tied.
If anybody within Microsoft is able to do something, please contact me -- jason at zx2c4 dot com.
- firen777 - 8313 sekunder sedanIt's like LibreOffice all over again: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-devel...
- pogue - 8093 sekunder sedanThey 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.
- tomgag - 2304 sekunder sedanSorry to hear about this turn of events, but it was pretty much to be expected given the way the world is turning, and Microsoft being Microsoft.
Switch to Linux if you can, and come give Shufflecake a try ;)
- dizhn - 8666 sekunder sedanMicrosoft disabled the developer's certificate so no windows releases can be made.
- shelled - 4697 sekunder sedanI am somewhat also concerned that this software was still being distributed on SourceForge.
- ninjagoo - 6092 sekunder sedanLooks like Linux and some of the BSDs are the only remaining truly open OSes.
- _s_a_m_ - 4516 sekunder sedanMicrosoft doing everything in their power to be assholes, as always
- avaer - 760 sekunder sedanForced software signing should be illegal.
- nixpulvis - 5921 sekunder sedanWe 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.
- 8cvor6j844qw_d6 - 2253 sekunder sedanSeeing this kind of friction makes me more confident in VeraCrypt. The tools that never seem to run into trouble with platform gatekeepers are the ones I'd worry about.
- RandomGerm4n - 5000 sekunder sedanThat's especially ridiculous because this whole security mechanism that Microsoft is forcing on Windows user doesn't even work. There are tons of leaked certificates and on forums dedicated to game hacking you can find guides on how to get your hands on one yourself. People there use them to write kernel drivers for cheating in games. Game developers often blacklist these in their anti-cheat software so that the game no longer launches on a computer using a driver with that certificate. Microsoft however does not do this and malware developers can then simply use the certificates for their own purposes. So all this nonsense is basically just a restriction on regular users and honest developers while the “bad guys” can get around it.
- saidnooneever - 3429 sekunder sedanmaybe an old vulnerable signed driver can be used to load the new version :D. on a more seirous note, i think contact with a person at MS, likely via socials triggering that, might help here. It all depends on the reason for the ban/block/cancel.
if they had a reason other than 'oops mistake' its likely just going to remain in place. (sadly, that is how MS is. if you care for privacy maybe go to BSD)
- speedgoose - 5445 sekunder sedanIt's perhaps naive, but could he create a new organisation, like a "TotallyNotVeraCrypt" French loi 1901 association, at a different address, and create a new microsoft account by making sure it passes all the requirements.
- - 6031 sekunder sedan
- bilekas - 2171 sekunder sedanAnd yet another example of companies turning actively hostile against their users.
The burden of usage/access is now solely on the customers and the feeling is that regular customers are just a nuisance to be ignored.
- ErroneousBosh - 8334 sekunder sedanJesus, sourceforge is still on the go?
Nördnytt! 🤓