Using Tails rather than punching the browser button is a tremendous inconvenience, as at the very least it requires two reboots, one to use it, and another to get back to normal. I have, and share a Tails torrent, which is open source, Tor enabled, Linux based, used to be anonymous, used by Ed Snowden and Bruce Schneir, but just exactly when do I use it? Everytime I visit my bank? When I want to send an email? Those are both online, and not particularly in my control. This does not help if my VPN’s encryption is broken. This does not help if Skype is broken, and do to the folks on the other end, other choices are not reasonable. This does not help if any encryption that gets used is broken. I run Windows as well, but only because I need, I mean need, my Flight Simulator. This is being posted from my Linux Machine. If you happen to use TrueCrypt, you should be very, very careful right now.įiled Under: development, disk encryption, encryption, privacy, security, truecrypt
While some initially questioned if this was a hoax, others quickly noted that a new version of the program was signed with the official TrueCrypt private key - meaning that it’s either legit, or TrueCrypt’s private key has been compromised (which would obviously present another serious issue). However, a little while ago, TrueCrypt’s SourceForge page suddenly announced that ” WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues” and furthermore: “The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP.” A little over a month ago, we noted that the first phase of the audit didn’t find any backdoors, but did note a few (mostly) minor vulnerabilities. At issue: TrueCrypt is open source and widely used and promoted (hell, Snowden himself apparently taught people how to use it), but no one really knew who was behind it - raising all sorts of questions. Last fall, we noted that the popular disk encryption software TrueCrypt was undergoing a security audit, inspired by the Snowden revelations. Wed, May 28th 2014 02:54pm - Mike Masnick
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