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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: 5, Funny) by Robotron on Tuesday June 17 2014, @11:48AM

    by Robotron (3099) on Tuesday June 17 2014, @11:48AM (#56312) Homepage

    If you click on his name link you receive the following message: The user you requested does not exist, no matter how much you wish this might be the case.

    Take the final letter of each of these words, reverse them and separate your letter crop into one eight letter word, one six letter word and one four letter word. This is the 'Geezer Cypher' named for London's gangsters who perfected its use through postwar years.

    Now, consult Tolkien's writings perform a rough conversion to Elvish/Elfish/Orlandabloomish. By translating your results into Old Norse (favored tongue at the Bilderberg conference and known J.R.R. staple) and finally back to Postmodern English we receive the following revelatory and newsworthy phrase:

    "Government toiletcam him."

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  • (Score: 1) by Horse With Stripes on Tuesday June 17 2014, @12:48PM

    by Horse With Stripes (577) on Tuesday June 17 2014, @12:48PM (#56333)

    That's just a bug in the summaries. The link for any user name that is more than one word is improperly formed. Slashcode forgets to put the '+' between the words.

    Bad: http://soylentnews.org/~JeremiahCornelius [soylentnews.org]
    Good: http://soylentnews.org/~Jeremiah+Cornelius [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 1) by karmawhore on Tuesday June 17 2014, @04:07PM

      by karmawhore (1635) on Tuesday June 17 2014, @04:07PM (#56485)

      Maybe Slashcode has been compromised by the NSA and that's the devs' way of tipping us off.

      --
      =kw= lurkin' to please