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.
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.