![]() ![]() On the Windows XP point – there is some legitimacy there in that Windows XP was the last Windows OS to not support usable built-in encryption functionality. ![]() Don’t run off an mass migrate those archives just yet. Put those laptops under lock and key and don’t use them a few days. ought to review personal security and NOT be spooked into spinning up the NSA archives and trying to migrate that data. Which is a simply way to suggest that Bruce, Greenwald, et al. Another line of thought goes like this: If the NSA really really really wants to know WHAT Snowden had access to, and wanted to say, use a tempest solution to grab that information, one way to to that would be to spook someone known to have received those info using psy_ops to persuade that someone to decrypt the entire data from whatever air-gapped machine is on into some other machine. to FINISH their audit just for posterity.ĭ. Was the original Truecrypt itself an NSA project and the shenanigans yesterday designed to keep people using the 7.1a and earlier versions (assuming there’s some sort of subtle compromise)? Was the change some sort of “dead man’s switch” that was spring loaded by the developer? Whatever the case, the Truecrypt project is now that friend who usually seems like a good guy, but suddenly turned sketchy. ![]() The update to to where the truecrypt site is redirected has a much more amateurish quality than the original site. Of if Bruce pulled this page, sought to deprecate Blowfish/Twofish and instead told everyone “Hey, you should really be using MacGuffin”Ĭ. ![]() Almost as if Phil Zimmerman shut down all his web sites and told people to stop using PGP and that they should use something called Bass-o-matic. The endorsement of BitLocker feeds into the later point above. It could also be the modern analog to something like this: ī. Its the sort of thing that would be automated in a development environment for a contractor doing work for the. The odd source code edit where comments referring to “U.S.” had the text altered to “United States” seems noteworthy. ![]()
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