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Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates (404media.co)
20k 1 minutes ago [-]
There's a good reason everyone calls them microslop these days. The sooner we're all able to ditch this crappy company, the better - they're actively holding back the tech industry at this point
nubinetwork 38 minutes ago [-]
Lihh27 23 minutes ago [-]
heh the same company that controls your secure boot chain just killed the signing account for the tool that encrypts your disk
28 minutes ago [-]
ChrisArchitect 20 minutes ago [-]
21 minutes ago [-]
msla 1 hours ago [-]
With Windows, you get what you pay for.

In this case, that's an OS controlled by an unaccountable company that can take application software away from you.

Related: If you're the customer, you're the product.

subscribed 43 minutes ago [-]
Hmmm, so basically Google but you also pay for it?
Already__Taken 45 minutes ago [-]
Windows actually isn't very cheap.
panzi 30 minutes ago [-]
I see what you did there.
dark-star 43 minutes ago [-]
you can always either disable secureboot and driver signature verification, or (the better solution) just enroll your own certificate in your TPM and sign the driver with that...
askonomm 18 minutes ago [-]
Ah, yes, the [insert super inconvenient and complex thing to do that most people don’t know, want or should do] will solve it! And when that fails, surely the user can just write their own OS, right? Bunch of skill-issued complainers we the users are.
malfist 37 minutes ago [-]
> or (the better solution) just enroll your own certificate in your TPM and sign the driver with that...

I'll tell Grandma that's what she needs to do.

pixel_popping 19 minutes ago [-]
Make sure that she setup a PKI infrastructure to manage certificate revocation as well, wouldn't want a bad grandson to mess with it.
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