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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by kirab on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @04:29PM (#7812648)
Could it be related to this announcement from yesterday: "just yesterday we added the ability to extract cached Truecrypt passphrases from Linux memory dumps."

http://volatility-labs.blogspot.de/2014/05/volatility-update...

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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by stith on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @04:40PM (#7812727)
Extracting TrueCrypt passwords from memory dumps has been trivial for quite a while now.
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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by asdfasdfasdddd on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @09:26PM (#7814093)
Agreed. TrueCrypt has always been upfront about the dangers of physical access to your machine (pulling master keys from RAM). This kind of response wouldn't makes sense
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