nixCraft 🐧1d ago

Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high profile open source projects without any notice or giving any reasons. Look like microsoft ID verification is taking place in Microsoft world and now devs accounts getting suspended https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-suspends-dev-accounts-for-high-profile-open-source-projects/

The list of affected projects includes, but is not limited to, WireGuard, VeraCrypt, the MemTest86 RAM testing and diagnosis tool, and the Windscribe VPN software.

Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

Microsoft has suspended developer accounts used to maintain multiple high-profile open-source projects without proper notification and no way to quickly reinstate them, effectively blocking them from publishing new software builds and security patches for Windows users.

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Show threadRasmus Lindegaard

@nixCraft dont host your open source stuff on Microsofts platform, damn it

Edit: note to self; read things more carefully next time. @Rin3d is entirely right that this isn't just access to repos randomly chosen to be hosted with MS

Apr 10 at 3:31pmWeb
Show threadRin3d1d ago
@rasmus91 @nixCraft this is about the digital signing that tells windows a program is safe/verified by MS, they don't exactly get a choice.
Show threadRasmus Lindegaard1d ago
@Rin3d @nixCraft yeah, I reread it, and saw that you're right. I thought at first it was that and general repo access 😅