Demise of TrueCrypt

[VeryShyPerson]

If you go to the website for TrueCrypt (a tool that lets you encrypt a hard drive and make encrypted volumes), you now get this page:

 

WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

 

It then tells you how to migrate to BitLocker.

 

This is veryyyyy sudden that it has a lot of people wondering what happened, whether the website got hacked (by someone who got the developer's signatures, as the read-only 7.2 version is properly signed), there was a spat among the developers, they just got tired of it or the NSA demanded a backdoor or something. Something that makes me lean towards the last option is this:

 

"Using TrueCrypt is not secure as"

I find that odd wording, as "insecure" is the same as not secure.

But then:

Using TrueCrypt is Not Secure As

Using TrueCrypt is N.S.A.

I'm no conspiracy theorist or anything, but I wonder if this might be some sort of warrant canary. Either ways I'm just really speculating here and I likely have no idea what im even talking about.

 

Anyways I don't use TrueCrypt anymore as I dont have any need for it, so thankfully that dont affect me too much anymore. But I found this odd and curious.

[BTGBullseye]

Yeah, I use BitLocker for my external, just to keep someone from having an easy time accessing it if they grab-and-run, but otherwise I have no use for drive encryption outside of my Linux box. (I do encryption on every partition [full custom partitioning] during install of the OS)

[VeryShyPerson]

Back when I used it I just kept a single encrypted volume with the files inside. But since I only used it for an extra backup of my passwords outside of LastPass, I decided it'd probably be easier to switch to something more dedicated and moved them all to KeePass.

[BTGBullseye]

The ones I want secured, I keep in my head, the rest I let Firefox remember for me.

[VeryShyPerson]

The ones I want secured, I keep in my head,

 

Ha! Wished that still worked for me. I used to memorize all of my passwords. I switched to LastPass a few months after my accident. I didn't really trust the browser's password manager (though I don't remember my reasoning at the time).

[BTGBullseye]

Honestly, there is no password that I use on the internet that I'm too terribly worried about being insecure. The only ones I require to be secure are on my hardware and in my head, everything else is expendable.