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A very interesting comment from netsec: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/26pz9b/truecrypt_development_has_ended_052814/chtgqg7 http://www.reddit.com/r/n

by Moral_ 12y ago

A very interesting comment from netsec: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/26pz9b/truecrypt_development_has_ended_052814/chtgqg7 http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/26pz9b/truecrypt_dev... This is very strange. I have another theory since I don't believe in coincidences. We don't know the real author of TrueCrypt. I think someone found his identity (cough NSA) and made him an offer like lavabit.com received. This time probably with security classification so he can't talk about that. HOWEVER, if we take a look on diff of his code, we can see two interesting things: messages about TrueCrypt not being secure and the second thing he changed everywhere U.S. text to United States Do you think that somoene who is closing a project would pay attention to doing such thing? I don't think so. I think that he tried to point a real reason of closing his project by that. I won't be surprised when truecrypt fork appears in TOR network soon...

cjg_ 12y ago
There was a lot of unrelated changes, this release was most likely just cut off their development branch.
- tacotime 12y ago
  The point is that a search and replace from "U.S." to "United States" is an unusual change. I have not seen evidence of this firsthand yet so I am just taking Moral_ on his word but if that is the case and there are a number of occurrences then it is certainly an interesting thing for the author to think to change.
tripzilch 12y ago
Interesting, but probably unrelated: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/26pz9b/truecrypt_development_has_ended_052814/chtrr61 http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/26pz9b/truecrypt_dev... says: > I asked around and apparently Visual Studio switched from generating "U.S." to "United States" in VS2010. Hence it is probably just the author having upgraded their VS at some point recently.

by Moral_ 12y ago

cjg_ 12y ago

There was a lot of unrelated changes, this release was most likely just cut off their development branch.

tacotime 12y ago
The point is that a search and replace from "U.S." to "United States" is an unusual change. I have not seen evidence of this firsthand yet so I am just taking Moral_ on his word but if that is the case and there are a number of occurrences then it is certainly an interesting thing for the author to think to change.

tripzilch 12y ago

Interesting, but probably unrelated: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/26pz9b/truecrypt_development_has_ended_052814/chtrr61 http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/26pz9b/truecrypt_dev... says: > I asked around and apparently Visual Studio switched from generating "U.S." to "United States" in VS2010. Hence it is probably just the author having upgraded their VS at some point recently.