Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:03:04
Message-Id: 201406031302.36820.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? by Tanstaafl
1 On Tuesday 03 Jun 2014 11:00:17 Tanstaafl wrote:
2 > On 6/3/2014 3:17 AM, Marc Stürmer <mail@×××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3 > > So no loss at all if TrueCrypt would really cease to exist.
4 >
5 > Which totally misses the point of *how* it happened.
6 >
7 > But never mind... it was definitely off-topic for gentoo.
8
9 With a secret development team in play we are verging on conspiracy theory
10 territory, but could it be related to this latest announcement and
11 Cryptolocker?
12
13 http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/international-takedown-wounds-gameover-zeus-cybercrime-network
14
15 PS. I don't know how Cryptolocker works, but it reads as if it is a filesystem
16 level, rather than block device level encryption tool.
17 --
18 Regards,
19 Mick

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