Truecrypt may be compromised
those who visit truecrypt's sourceforge page will get this warning
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They Recommend to migrate to Bitlocker....an encryption platform by Microsoft that the feds asked for a backdoor. Suspicous. Some users believe the program was compromised due to a national security letter, or it may be a break-in. Many things don't add up, including the fact that Truecrypt re-issued all of its keys only 4 hours before releasing the new version, 7.2. On top of this - they say they have stopped development because WinXP support has ended... which doesn't add up at all. Even those who audited truecrypt found out suddenly today about the changes and shutdown of the trucrypt project. At this point it is not recommended to use the new version 7.2 |
The NSA can break any encryption that they want. It doesn't matter what you use.
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SourceForge forced a password reset last week citing "changes to how we're storing user passwords."
SourceForge may be compromised as well. |
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That being said, backdoors are different from what you said earlier which is clearly false Quote:
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The HeartBleed exploit was the biggest eye opener in like decades. Everything uses SSL/https and hackers could pull any data from memory at will with it and yet it was only discovered a couple months ago.
http://heartbleed.com/ |
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http://www.slideshare.net/lgrangeia/...leed-35236317# |
There are several suspicious details to this. May 22 sourceforge required a password reset. Recommended bitlocker is ONLY available on Win7 Ultimate and Enterprise (not home or pro), and only available on Win8 Pro and Enterprise (not rt or home).
I'm leaning towards hacked or warrant canary. |
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Nothing in my Sourceforge account tells them anything about me. And if you're using the same password for multiple online services, that's pretty freaking dumb. So I ask again, why does it matter if Sourceforge has been compromised? |
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2. Although software that they host is open source, most people do not check MD5 checksum's of the software that they download, few check that the available executable matches one compiled independently, and few have the capability to audit the millions of lines of code of each version. Thus, when the chain of trust is potentially broken (such as when SourceForge has been compromised), than any software hosted from the site becomes potentially suspect and should be viewed with suspicion. |
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As a source of open source software, SourceForge gives the user the ability to inspect the actual code and make informed decisions all on their own. If the users aren't doing that, shame on them. |
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glad i'm still using the old version
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