That article provides no suggestion whatsoever that the government is able to efficiently bruteforce truecrypt. I think everyone can agree that if any part of t

That article provides no suggestion whatsoever that the government is able to efficiently bruteforce truecrypt. I think everyone can agree that if any part of the government had better-than-brute force capabilities for truecrypt, the FBI would absolutely not be allowed to disclose or make use of that capability in a child porn case. More likely explanations: Forensics recovered the password from an unencrypted volume, or he had a really dumb password, and he probably reused it somewhere.