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Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected

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VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH>:

> For those that want to know just what was the "code" used to convey NSA
> interferrence, someone took the first letters from words in the first
> sentence which (after adding spaces) looked like translated [bad] Latin:
>
> "Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues"
> UTI NSA IM CU SI
> "Unless I want to use the NSA"
> (See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Badon#TrueCrypt_hidden_message)

It doesn't matter if that is Latin or not. What matters is that that
utterance, when given to Google Translate as input, yields that message.
It could be collusion between Google (employees) and TrueCrypt
developers, or the TrueCrypt developers might have gamed Google
Translate.

As it stands, the message is there, even if it were a joke.

How NSA has interfered here is impossible to say. However, it is their
*job* to try to make eavesdropping easier. For example, I wouldn't be
surprised if the NSA were pressuring the FCC, the courts and the
legislators to drop net neutrality. The operators would be more than
willing to give the NSA preferential access to their communications in
exchange for a voice communications monopoly. (Skype is fine because it
is based in the U.S., but a neutral Internet might allow a foreign
contender to become popular.)


Marko

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Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-17 11:13 +0000
  Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-06-17 23:09 +1000
    Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-06-17 11:13 -0300
      Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-06-18 11:07 +1000
    Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2014-06-17 15:24 -0500
      Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-06-18 14:19 +1000
        Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2014-06-18 01:25 -0500
          Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-06-18 16:40 +1000
    Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-17 13:59 -0700
    Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected Mark Harvard <mark.harvard.909we3@gmail-.com> - 2014-06-17 14:03 -0700
      Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-06-18 14:28 +1000
  Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected Anonymous <anonymous@foto.nl1.torservers.net> - 2014-06-17 13:15 -0400
  Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2014-06-17 15:50 -0500
    Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-18 00:22 +0300
  Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-17 14:01 -0700
  Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-06-17 21:38 +0000
    Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-17 21:50 +0000
  Re: Truecrypt infiltrated by NSA, as suspected "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-06-18 10:52 -0500

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