• Godort@lemmy.caEnglish
    21 days

    “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
        21 days

        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
          20 days

          Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

    • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      21 days

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

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    21 days

    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
    21 days

    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
    21 days

    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
    21 days

    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
      21 days

      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
    20 days

    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.

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21 days

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

    • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21 days

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

    • Luci@lemmy.caEnglish
      21 days

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