Comment 1YZ Never used TrueCrypt

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Never used TrueCrypt (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-30 12:28 (#1YZ)

But this is an interesting story...

I still wonder whether the philosophies of privacy versus power and the distribution of autonomy in society is workable or whether Animal Farm/1984/Brave New World scenarios are inevitable after any post-revolution period of time. TrueCrypt was a tool for those interested in securing some privacy for data? I can imagine many legitimate personal, political and business use cases, as well as, more nefarious intentions. Nonetheless, I hope that we can devise a system/laws that allow such tools to have an accessible, operational and audited presence in the Computer Age. Basically, I feel it is important that power (for privacy or anything else) be distributed and this is a basic principle of democracy. Many of the possible explanations for TrueCrypt's demise appear linked to the lack of enough money to justify continued development though, which begs the question of how an interested community could best fund key programs like OpenSSH, TrueCrypt, etc, and how they might handle key developers moving on?

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2014-06-10 03:01 Normal 0 reziac@pipedot.org
2014-06-03 08:35 Normal 0 tdk@pipedot.org

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