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Special guest Alan Pope and I kick off episode 1 of Tech Talk Today. Topics include the fall of TrueCrypt, Chris digging for Ubuntu phone info, what the heck is Tech Talk Today all about and more!

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TrueCrypt

The anonymous developers responsible for building and maintaining the free whole-disk encryption suite TrueCrypt apparently threw in the towel this week, shuttering the TrueCrypt site and warning users that the product is no longer secure now that Microsoft has ended support for Windows XP.

The TrueCrypt project has shut down, and we\’ll run down what we think is the most likely answer to this sudden mystery is.

And then the TrueCrypt developers were heard from

Steven Barnhart (@stevebarnhart) wrote to an eMail address he had used before and received several replies from \”David.\”

The following snippets were taken from a twitter conversation which then took place between Steven Barnhart (@stevebarnhart) and Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green):

TrueCrypt Developer \”David\”: \”We were happy with the audit, it didn\’t spark anything. We worked hard on this for 10 years, nothing lasts forever.\”

Steven Barnhart (Paraphrasing): Developer \”personally\” feels that fork is harmful: \”The source is still available as a reference though.\”

Steven Barnhart: \”I asked and it was clear from the reply that \”he\” believes forking\’s harmful because only they are really familiar w/code.\”

Steven Barnhart: \”Also said no government contact except one time inquiring about a \’support contract.\’ \”

TrueCrypt Developer \”David\” said: \”Bitlocker is \’good enough\’ and Windows was original \’goal of the project.\’ \”

Quoting TrueCrypt Developer David: \”There is no longer interest.\”

Ubuntu Phone

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