Microslop sabotaging privacy!? never did i expect them to do something so dastardly.
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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Microslop, who bundle their OS with a competing encryption product that probably has government backdoors, "accidentally" shutting out open source encryption software. Nothing to see here. Perfectly legitimate business behavior.
Big Tech = Weapons contractor... which also means digital slave tracker
Anyway, this doesn't look good, and leaving developers of critical security software without recourse for weeks only erodes trust. But, in the end, this won't really affect a behemoth like Microsoft, who has a dominating hold on the operating system market.
I'm going to be hosting a community class to get rid of Windows and switch to Linux.
That's extremely cool! Are you holding it at the library or something? What distro will you be going with in your demonstration, or are you going to be talking about multiple ones? Do you know how many people will be attending yet?
I'm sorry for all the questions, it's just super cool to me haha
All good questions! I need to try Zorin first to see what it's like and figure out interest levels.
At the moment, it's just a good idea.
If someone is using a VPN, they're at least a little tinkery and privacy-focused so maybe this will be the straw that breaks some of their decency on Microsoft.
Is it just me or is the headline misleading and wrong?
Why would WireGuard, VeraCrypt or Windscribe push windows updates in the first place?
If you read the actual text it says Microsoft locked out the accounts these 3 projects used to publish new versions of their software.
They're probably using "Windows updates" to mean "updates to their software on Windows" but it's obviously confusing.
It also seems like somewhat reasonable anti-malware practices, for the most part. They want a government ID if you're going to push kernel level drivers. They have a process for doing so.
Could have been smoother, such as allowing them to recover their existing account.
I believe it’s the driver they install that becomes the problem if they don’t have a valid Microsoft account; it’s no longer valid and untrusted by the system.
it's you
Not at all anticompetitive. Because, uhh, reasons?