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My current favorite insane/facetious conspiracy theory on this:

    "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as ..."
     WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is (n)ot (s)ecure (a)s ...
                    TrueCrypt is (n)ot (s)ecure (a)s ...
                                 (n)ot (s)ecure (a)s

                    TrueCrypt is (n)   (s)      (a)


I love this game!

    "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as ..."
    "WARNING: Using True(C)rypt (i)s not secure (a)s ..."

                        (C)     (i)             (a)
Again!

    "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as ..."
    "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt i(s) n(o)t (s)ecure as ..."

                               (s)  (o)  (s)


Not that I think it was intentional, but putting something in that is not grammatically correct like the op version and with no spacing is much stronger than picking random letters from the words to prove a point.


It's grammatically correct, read the whole sentence. It just looks odd when you take half the sentence out of context.


Another interesting thing is that in the diff for 7.1a and 7.2 the author changed U.S. to United States several times. Some people think this is to draw attention to it being related to the US government


But other people point out that Visual Studio changed its default name for America from the former to the latter.


>>> s="""If you have files encrypted by TrueCrypt on Linux:

Use any integrated support for encryption. Search available installation packages for words encryption and crypt, install any of the packages found and follow its documentation"""

>>> ''.join(a[0] for a in s.split())

'IyhfebToLUaisfeSaipfweaciaotpfafid'

That short string contains "beast of the apocalypse" [1] plus some other letters ('iuififwaifafi')

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(Revelation) - "The second beast is described in Revelation 13:11-18 and is also referred to as the false prophet."


When you harbor some pet assumption, the entire world conspires to verify your assumption.


More random tidbits of folk-wisdom. This neither helps us further along on any idea(for/against/neither). Merely a blank truism.


Well the very next sentence continues "This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt" which could easily be read as a prepared response to the person brandishing the NSL who is now annoyed that the authors have suddenly decided that right NOW is an 'entirely natural' time to end the project.


Obligatory Half-Life 3 is confirmed, 9/11 was an inside job, etc. etc.


Yeah seriously, take of your tin-foil hat, why would the NSA be interested in an encryption product?

Oh, wait, it's entirely feasible.




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