▲ 160 ▼ TrueCrypt, what really happened? (lemmy.world) submitted 9 months ago by oyzmo@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 24 comments fedilink hide all child comments What really happened to TrueCrypt back in 2014? Did anyone ever find out? It was a widely used encryption tool, that was suddenly dropped with the message " not safe, use something else".
[+] tomsh@lemmy.world -17 points 9 months ago (1 child) Try searching truecrypt and criminals permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tomsh@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago (1 child) To explain, I read about this many years ago. It's about a journalist who tried to find out what was happening with TrueCrypt, and it turned out it was apparently connected to serious criminals who were killing people, etc. The story is actually really interesting, and I'd love to find the original piece. I have nothing against TrueCrypt, and in fact, I used it back then and still use it now (VeraCrypt). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (1 child) Maybe March 30, 2016: The Strange Origins of TrueCrypt, ISIS’s Favored Encryption Tool By Evan Ratliff for The New Yorker (paywall) In isis’s training and operational planning, Callimachi reported, the group appeared to routinely use a piece of software called TrueCrypt. When one would-be bomber was dispatched from Syria to France, Callimachi writes, “an Islamic State computer specialist handed him a USB key. It contained CCleaner, a program used to erase a user’s online history on a given computer, as well as TrueCrypt, an encryption program that was widely available at the time and that experts say has not yet been cracked.” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tomsh@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) That wasn't the article. It was in some lesser-known magazine (maybe even a blog) and it wasn't about ISIS or the terrorists we know today. It was written specifically about the guy who created the program and his connection to drug cartels, if I remember correctly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tomsh@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago (1 child) To explain, I read about this many years ago. It's about a journalist who tried to find out what was happening with TrueCrypt, and it turned out it was apparently connected to serious criminals who were killing people, etc. The story is actually really interesting, and I'd love to find the original piece. I have nothing against TrueCrypt, and in fact, I used it back then and still use it now (VeraCrypt). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (1 child) Maybe March 30, 2016: The Strange Origins of TrueCrypt, ISIS’s Favored Encryption Tool By Evan Ratliff for The New Yorker (paywall) In isis’s training and operational planning, Callimachi reported, the group appeared to routinely use a piece of software called TrueCrypt. When one would-be bomber was dispatched from Syria to France, Callimachi writes, “an Islamic State computer specialist handed him a USB key. It contained CCleaner, a program used to erase a user’s online history on a given computer, as well as TrueCrypt, an encryption program that was widely available at the time and that experts say has not yet been cracked.” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tomsh@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) That wasn't the article. It was in some lesser-known magazine (maybe even a blog) and it wasn't about ISIS or the terrorists we know today. It was written specifically about the guy who created the program and his connection to drug cartels, if I remember correctly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (1 child) Maybe March 30, 2016: The Strange Origins of TrueCrypt, ISIS’s Favored Encryption Tool By Evan Ratliff for The New Yorker (paywall) In isis’s training and operational planning, Callimachi reported, the group appeared to routinely use a piece of software called TrueCrypt. When one would-be bomber was dispatched from Syria to France, Callimachi writes, “an Islamic State computer specialist handed him a USB key. It contained CCleaner, a program used to erase a user’s online history on a given computer, as well as TrueCrypt, an encryption program that was widely available at the time and that experts say has not yet been cracked.” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tomsh@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) That wasn't the article. It was in some lesser-known magazine (maybe even a blog) and it wasn't about ISIS or the terrorists we know today. It was written specifically about the guy who created the program and his connection to drug cartels, if I remember correctly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tomsh@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) That wasn't the article. It was in some lesser-known magazine (maybe even a blog) and it wasn't about ISIS or the terrorists we know today. It was written specifically about the guy who created the program and his connection to drug cartels, if I remember correctly. permalink fedilink source parent