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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]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by BsAtHome on Tuesday June 17 2014, @11:52AM
You can find any meaning in anything. You just massage the data in the right way and it will tell you what you have always believed in. A self-fulfilling prophecy in perpetual motion.
There may be a truth in any remark or finding, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Or, in other words, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and flies like a duck, it would most probably be a (duck) goose [sigh].
Some good questions:
- If the authors of TC are anonymous, where no one knows who they are, how can they be silenced?
- If there are multiple devs, are they all US nationals? If not, why are they all silent?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 17 2014, @12:55PM
I'm afraid those aren't very good questions. To you and me the developers are anonymous, to NSA et al. not so much. Also, do you really think that the NSA follows the laws of the countries it spies upon? Pretty naive.
If you're doing anything sensitive, your a fool to use Micro$oft to begin with. Ditto apple, google, facebook...
(Score: 2) by LookIntoTheFuture on Tuesday June 17 2014, @04:00PM
I know this is off-topic but this is why collecting "big data" and having humans analyze it (or writing code to do so) is a recipe for disaster. Especially when this data is used to hurt your reputation, imprison or kill you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 20 2014, @11:02AM
Answer 2 questions here http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=2401&cid=56617 [soylentnews.org] & you're more than welcome to validly technically disprove my points on hosts here also http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=2401&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=improvedthreaded&pid=56357#56595 [soylentnews.org] since you avoided them before ("gosh, I wonder why?" Not!) & yet you saw fit to give me orders? Do you own this site?? No, I doubt that.
APK
P.S.=> You're 1 of 4 types of people (bank on it):
1.) Advertiser
2.) Malware maker &/or botnet herders
3.) Webmaster (I held the app back for them in fact, it was done, in 3 parts though in tty mode, as far back as 2003 here but when malvertizing went out of control, out the door she went to 'the masses' for the absolute good, since any idiot knows being destructive = easy, but doing good NEVER is, but it's worth it imo)
4.) An INFERIOR competitor (e.g. - AdBlock, Ghostery, & RequestPolicy)
* Doesn't 'take a brain' to realize THAT much - after all: THEY'RE THE ONES WHO GET "HURT" by it... problem is, THEY have been hurting others bandwidth/speed, security, & more for DECADES...
Funniest part is that those technically unjustifiable downmods are "the best they got" but they certainly CAN'T get the better of me disproving my points on hosts files' mulitiple nigh ubiquitous value to end users...
In fact? I'd almost WAGER per #5 above in this case, that it's Wladimir Palant (AdBlock creator) who wrote me by email, 1st, saying "hosts are a shitty solution" - well, when I confonted him in email reply to show me that "Almost ALL ADS BLOCKED" can do MORE than custom hosts? He refused to reply, & RAN like a scared rabbit - ESPECIALLY after this article study showed how massively INEFFICIENT in RAM (5gb usage) & HIGH CPU USAGE AdBlock is https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-pluss-effect-on-firefoxs-memory-usage/ [mozilla.org] ... apk
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday June 17 2014, @07:49PM
This is true only if you have enough data to work with, or a REALLY loose definition of what it means to massage the data. (OTOH, someone already came up with an alternative involving Romanian, above this in the thread. I didn't find it convincing, but there may be other meanings that could be derived, some of which might be convincing.)
Still, to address your questions:
Why do you think that they fear legal actions rather than illegal ones? What makes you think they are really anonymous? (Being anonymous for any length of time is really difficult if someone with resources is after you.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.