On Tuesday 03 Jun 2014 11:00:17 Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 6/3/2014 3:17 AM, Marc Stürmer <mail@marc-stuermer.de> wrote:
> > So no loss at all if TrueCrypt would really cease to exist.
> 
> Which totally misses the point of *how* it happened.
> 
> But never mind... it was definitely off-topic for gentoo.

With a secret development team in play we are verging on conspiracy theory 
territory, but could it be related to this latest announcement and 
Cryptolocker?

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/international-takedown-wounds-gameover-zeus-cybercrime-network

PS. I don't know how Cryptolocker works, but it reads as if it is a filesystem 
level, rather than block device level encryption tool.
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Regards,
Mick