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Open Source Crypto TrueCrypt Disappears With Suspicious Cloud Of Mystery
Forbes ^
| 5/29/2014
| James Lyne
Posted on 05/29/2014 8:05:00 PM PDT by TChad
Over the past 24 hours the website for TrueCrypt (a very widely used encryption solution) was updated with a rather unusually styled message stating that TrueCrypt is “considered harmful” and should not be used.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bitlocker; computers; cryptography; edwardsnowden; encryption; nsa; publickey; truecrypt
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Perhaps the developers learned that they were not quite as anonymous as they had hoped. It will be interesting to see what the ongoing
TrueCrypt audit finds.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:05:01 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: TChad
Nothing is anonymous these days.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:09:39 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: TChad
Dang, you beat my post by a minute! Good work!
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:16:29 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Magnimus, 2014)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:21:41 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: TChad
Our office used TC for a long time, even before the lavabit fiasco. No hard drives were ever used without it.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:22:04 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: TChad
This is a disturbing bit of news!
A true WTF!? moment.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:23:28 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
Dang, you beat my post by a minute! Good work! It's always good to have a backup.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:27:36 PM PDT
by
TChad
(The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
To: TChad
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:34:20 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
To: max americana
Our office used TC for a long time, even before the lavabit fiasco. It's a great program. I will continue to use it for personal stuff, at least for a few weeks. Advising users to shift to Bitlocker screams "More is going on here than we are telling you!"
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:36:42 PM PDT
by
TChad
(The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
To: Bobalu
See this page... Thanks. Steve Gibson is great.
Finish the audit and bring on the fork!
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:39:25 PM PDT
by
TChad
(The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
To: TChad
Probably breached by the sickos at NSA
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:40:10 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Bobalu
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:42:22 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: yldstrk
Probably breached by the sickos at NSA I wonder what Snowden has to say about this.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:45:01 PM PDT
by
TChad
(The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
To: TChad
This mess screams NDA.
A Lavabit moment here I think.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:45:41 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
To: TChad
Privacy is harmful, and should not be sought.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:48:23 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: TChad
It’s rather amazing, and slightly depressing, that stories like this invariably pull people out of the woodwork who have no idea what the story means, little concept of what they’re talking about, yet despite that ignorance said people tend to have VERY definite opinions.
To: Bobalu
“This mess screams NDA.”
No, it doesn’t.
To: TChad
“Advising users to shift to Bitlocker screams “More is going on here than we are telling you!”
Exactly. You mean the same Microsoft who sold a Skype user to the gubmint’? No thanks.
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posted on
05/29/2014 9:09:43 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: Bobalu
Thanks for the link. It will be interesting to see the level of interest in actually picking up the fork.
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posted on
05/29/2014 10:18:15 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(I have never seen anyone cross the street to avoid a black man in a suit.)
To: zeugma
I’d sure like to know just EXACTLY what is going on here...it’s just gotta be an interesting story.
I wonder what Snowden’s thoughts are on this.
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posted on
05/29/2014 10:21:27 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
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