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| From: | Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? | ||
| Date: | Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:24:44 | ||
| Message-Id: | 538C42D3.6050205@googlemail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? by Dale |
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| 1 | Am 02.06.2014 10:22, schrieb Dale: |
| 2 | > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
| 3 | >> Am 01.06.2014 14:31, schrieb Tanstaafl: |
| 4 | >>> Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when |
| 5 | >>> playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all |
| 6 | >>> time favorite apps, is no more. |
| 7 | >>> |
| 8 | >>> Some links of interest: |
| 9 | >>> |
| 10 | >>> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/truecrypt_wtf.html |
| 11 | >>> |
| 12 | >>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7812133 |
| 13 | >>> |
| 14 | >>> http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/505372-truecrypt-is-dead?page=1 |
| 15 | >>> |
| 16 | >>> |
| 17 | >> well, if true: good riddance. But I suspect some hacker-y or power |
| 18 | >> struggle. |
| 19 | >> |
| 20 | >> |
| 21 | > I'm considering encrypting my home partition one of these days. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | why? if you are hacked, they just read what you are reading. Encryption |
| 24 | does not help you there at all. |
| 25 | If your box is used by the state against you they just force you to give |
| 26 | them the keys. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Just rm -rf /home if they a knocking on your door. |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> |