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To go along with what everyone else is saying, TrueCrypt is meant as legal protection. Assuming anything more leads us to the ever-relavent xkcd: http://xkcd.co
by eximius 13y ago
To go along with what everyone else is saying, TrueCrypt is meant as legal protection. Assuming anything more leads us to the ever-relavent xkcd: http://xkcd.com/538/ http://xkcd.com/538/.
Also, there is no strictly dominant strategy in the prisoners dilemma like he says.
- maxerickson 13y agoI use encryption to store vaguely sensitive documents because it mitigates the consequences if my computer is stolen. I guess that means I'm not a true crypto nerd? (I think it is unfortunate how dismissive that comic is, exactly because of this use case...)
- eximius 13y agoNo, that's what I do too. My point is simply that crypto only protects you from attack vectors targeting the data. If you are the target, your crypto won't save you.