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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by xxffgg557 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:35PM (#24909764)
How about research it yourself before spreading false information about a really amazing tool masked as a question.

Or do you have a competing tool? Let me guess. Someone will ask for an alternative and another will suggest..

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by Quarrelsome on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:37PM (#24909786)
Uh no. I'm literally just saying the things I know about Truecrypt. Its a very old and as far as I was aware its no longer maintained and not recommended for securing things. Am I wrong?
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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by vorpalhex on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @02:12PM (#24910154)
You are incorrect. TrueCrypt was audited and passed, and lives on in multiple forms under multiple maintainers, the most well known being VeraCrypt.

If you are unsure of a fact, you can always do some quick research using your web browser before posting incorrect information in a way that may be misunderstood.

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Re:RIAA’s YouTube-dl takedown ticks off developers and GitHu... by johnmaguire2013 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @01:46PM (#24909885)
> Its a very old and as far as I was aware its no longer maintained and not recommended for securing things.

This doesn't mean it has a "fundamental flaw that means everything it encrypted is trivial to unlock today."

There has been no evidence to suggest that is true. An NCC Group audit found no significant flaws: https://opencryptoaudit.org/reports/TrueCrypt_Phase_II_NCC_O...

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