Re:Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation
by DSingularity on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:58PM
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TrueCrypt Rest In Peace.
Re:Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation
by fsflover on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @01:01PM
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Actually AFAIK it still works fine except privilege escalations (which do not concern users caring about security and using Qubes OS).
Re:Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation
by edm0nd on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @01:58PM
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VeraCrypt is what most moved to iirc.
I still actually wonder what actually happened to TrueCrypt. Did a dev get threatened with a NSA or FBI NSL? Did they get asked to implant a bug so they shut it down instead? So many questions.
Re:Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation
by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:07PM
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Conspiracy theory me says it was the NSA. From their home page warning.
> WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues.
The phrase “not secure as” is interesting as the first letter spell out NSA.
Re:Swiss report reveals new details on CIA spying operation
by jlgaddis on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:42PM
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Also, the first letters of "unfixed security" are "U.S." which could be another hint.
Plus, "Using TrueCrypt" -- "UTC". According to Wikipedia, UTC is "a successor to Greenwich Mean Time" -- Greenwich, London, England. GCHQ is in England! So, obviously, it was a partnership between NSA and GCHQ!
Surely we can come up with even more irrefutable evidence^W^Woutrageous theories if we devote a few minutes to it.
We need independent crowdfunded external audits for that like the one performed for TrueCrypt.