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Now this is even more alarming! Wireguard's creator has their Microsoft account suspended...

<Tin foil hat on> Microsoft doesn't want to allow software that would allow the user to shield themselves, either by totally encrypting a drive, or by encrypting their network traffic! </Tin foil hat on>

> Microsoft doesn't want to allow software that would allow the user to shield themselves

I don't think Microsoft cares (about anything besides making mo' money), but there are plenty of (state) actors that can influence the decision-making at Microsoft when it comes to these issues.

No tinfoil needed.

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Or more likely, some automated security system flagged popular but suspicious apps for further review.
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Automated systems breaking things without any human contact to get them resolved seems to be the theme of the last 10 years.
Where are the people that tried to sell us software signatures as security benefit? The reality is that they are a very specific security problem. In theory and in practice.
Maybe they let Mythos loose and it suggested the safest approach was to remove access ;)
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