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TrueCrypt Site Encodes Warning about NSA Infiltration

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday June 17 2014, @10:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the Paging-Dan-Brown dept.

Jeremiah Cornelius writes:

In an update to the speculation that TrueCrypt development was officially discontinued as a response to efforts by US intelligence agencies to compromise the project, the TrueCrypt web site seems to contain a secret message warning potential users of NSA interference in the integrity of the software. The apparent message, "Don't use TrueCrypt because it is under the control of the NSA" is read as an acrostic in Latin, contained in the message announcing developer cessation of the project on SouceForge. Two independent analytical exercises, conducted independently, arrive at the same conclusion. User "Badon" at the Live Business Chat message board has a detailed exegesis including screenshots and footnotes.

[EDITOR'S NOTE: I have cross checked this on some Latin specific sites, and the consensus seems to be that it is nonsensical from a perspective of proper Latin grammar and syntax. However, Google Translation does reproduce these results. I can certainly believe that a warning might have been composed using G.T. rather than by consulting a classicist. --ED]

 
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  • (Score: 1) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday June 17 2014, @11:33AM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Tuesday June 17 2014, @11:33AM (#56305) Journal

    truecrypt is open source.

    So is openssl in BSD [theregister.co.uk], and they do a lot of reviews as well...

    You don't go "This is compromised. Better use this proprietary tool instead. It's probably not compromised since you can't see the code".

    To me this was a clear hint that TrueCrypt is not only un-maintained, but most likely really has or will have some backdoor. I will not use bitlocker (as it isn't available for the systems I usually use ;-)), but this advice emphasized to me that they really want to discourage me to use TrueCrypt for some probably sound reason they don't want to spell out loud.

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