• Godort@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

    “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.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3 months

        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?”.

        • Lianodel@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          3 months

          Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

    • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3 months

      Few journals criticize Apple (and Apple doesn’t reveal these things that often) and the rest have no mandatory certification.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3 months

    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.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    3 months

    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.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    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?

  • fireshell@kbin.earth
    3 months

    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.

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3 months

      The NSA would just order Microsoft to give them a direct backdoor, like they did with AT&T. They wouldn’t order an account disabled.

  • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    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.

  • trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    3 months

    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?

    • rarsamx@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      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.

      • trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        3 months

        Ok. Since you have no ability to infer let me be a bit more direct: the government does not want you to have properly functioning encryption ciphers (that is, not tampered with, backdoored) applied to virtual tunnels (whether client, server or firewall level) or disks (virtual or physical) and they are incredibly transparent about it.

        Furthermore, one could say we are all under reacting to the current assault on human privacy as a whole, including but not limited to, age verification bills being pushed in multiple countries, ai surveillance, operating system level id verification efforts, backdoors (physical or within software), VPN bans, mobile operating system lockdowns, etc… under blatant authoritarian governments.

        To downplay the seriousness of the current state of reality would in itself be disinformation and truly makes me curious as to why you thought about spewing such nonsense in response.

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Why the fuck would any of those organizations still being using Microsoft to begin with?

    • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      These were the developer accounts to sign their software to run on Windows

    • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      My dude. It is literally in the first paragraph of the article.