Zack WhittakerIn some rare(?) good news, the developers of VeraCrypt and WireGuard have both told me that they have regained access following their Microsoft account lockouts and can now release updates again.
Jason Stuart@zackwhittaker Only took the collective journalistic internet asking Microsoft WTF.... >.<
Kevin Karhan@zackwhittaker still, this entire problem should not exist to begin with!
- Only #SelfCustody of #certificates helps.
- Remember: #NotYourKeysNotYourDevice!
brown ☕🍵@zackwhittaker yep, new release of Wireguard for Windows today.
Myphatself@brown @zackwhittaker and because of the Notepad++ incident, this is the first time I looked side-eye at an update. Probably the most research I've done on "is an update legitimate?"
Gabriele Marcosanti 
@zackwhittaker wisest move would have been declare Windows an unsupported platform and direct users to Linux/OSX.
trusty falxter 🧠
@gmarcosanti Will VeraCrypt and WireGuard run on MacOS without code signing?
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@zackwhittaker @mttaggart That is good news!
Detail020@zackwhittaker They should move to @Codeberg
RyanSquared@detail020 I agree but it won't help when it comes to actually signing the Windows drivers, unfortunately.
Infoseepage@zackwhittaker Very disturbing that they were locked out ever. These are high profile privacy/security projects and I don't know what is worse, the idea that Microsoft bureaucratically just did something that would prevent them from issuing emergency updates, or that they were blocked on purpose to test the waters for a totalitarian computing regime.
@zackwhittaker Imagine something like:
You have to have a Microsoft account with your ID registered and your computer's bitlocker key is auto-backed up to MS datacenter where it can be handed over to the government.
barbraProblem with bitlocker is you can't just pull the drive and recover your data on another machine without the key - which can get lost, our you get locked out of your account.
@barbra @zackwhittaker I had this happen to a client a few weeks back. For some reason they had bitlocker turned on and TPM or something got triggered and windows wouldn't boot. They never made a recovery key, wrote it down or backed it up to MS cloud. Drive is basically encrypted and unrecoverable.
Orca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️⚧️@zackwhittaker Why were they locked out at first? Did Microsoft gave any reason?
Ownoh@zackwhittaker good news
Oliver D. Reithmaier@zackwhittaker wow all we have to do is complain every time until they do the right thing. Easy!