A Master Mason, Yale, Harvard, and Army War college grad. My Ex's brother (ret) was in 1998 2 Star General Head of Army Logistics. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.' 'It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. Most of the people at the 'helm' are complete sociopaths.

I firmly believe they are trying to prevent any from having a means of securing personal information and want free rein. They've been reading our mail for decades and are only now trying to make it legal to do so. I'm quite sure, if I looked around, I could find some text stating that TrueCrypt and BitLocker were built by the same entity.aliens that visited Bill G, the TC devs, and Zombie Steve Jobs. It is not that they are looking for terrorist n such but, they want everything indexed and categorized on everyone. They did not build that Utah massive database center for nothing. With a good password, brute force would still take a very long time. Truecrypt lists some caveats in their files that would weaken the encryption, but barring those, it's pretty much going to take a brute force method at this point. If your drive contained a matter of national security, they'd dedicate the resources it took to get into it. Government organizations don't have time or money to throw at some random criminal's truecrypt drive so it's 'un-crackable' in these cases. I don't think it's been cracked, at least not without some sort of brute-force method, which would take a lot of computing power and time.

I don't think they wanted any part of dealing with the hassles of dealing with random government organizations trying to pressure them to exploit a back door that doesn't exist. Look what the government is doing with Apple. The developers tried to remain anonymous, and I think they saw the writing on the wall. You've read the truecrypt audit right? They didn't find any major problems with it. Some people have thought their message might have been a 'canary', but I don't think so.

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