alt Hacker NewsHonest question, did we ever get an answer what was the cause for the sudden change from the original Truecrypt developer?
Even if one doesn't want to maintain that project for purely private reasons, recommending Bitlocker as the drop-in-replacement always made it smell fishy to me.
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no_time • today at 11:10 AM
I would also like to know why is it excluded from Archive.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://www.true...
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b65e8bee43c2ed0 • today at 11:09 AM
likely chose to shut down rather than bend over, same as Lavabit a year prior. I find it more plausible than the other theory.
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newsoftheday • today at 4:26 PM
Agreed, that whole thing was suspicious. I still use TrueCrypt, because of the suspicious nature of how it all went down.
It's more or less commonly accepted that its creator got jailed for being an arms dealer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux