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James Bentley

Microsoft claims WireGuard and Veracrypt account termination was merely due to not verifying an email: 'Not everything is a conspiracy, sometimes it's literally paperwork'

Microsoft campus .

It can be easy to dunk on Microsoft. It is the creator of the most popular operating system, Windows, yet it's constantly trying to push more AI onto its users, and this is before mentioning the less savoury parts of the company. So when it was revealed that WireGuard and VeraCrypt both had their developer accounts terminated, it was easy to place the blame on the company.

But a representative from Microsoft instead claims that it was merely a mistake on the developers' part by not checking emails. A classic blunder.

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