[Cryptography] What is going on with TrueCrypt?

[George Larson]

Apologies if I simply missed it but I haven't seen a link to this bit,
which leads to "confirmation" of warrant canary:

  http://meta.ath0.com/2014/05/30/truecrypt-warrant-canary-confirmed/

  https://twitter.com/AlyssaRowan/statuses/472303977997279232

  https://twitter.com/munin/status/472116663937429504

Though it's still a bit shy of convincing, if you ask me.




On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> wrote:

> On Jun 2, 2014, at 2:11 PM, Nemo <nemo at self-evident.org> wrote:
> > ...What would happen if someone just cut&pasted the TrueCrypt source
> > wholesale and put his/her own name, copyright, and license on it?
> >
> > The only ones with legal standing to sue for infringement are the
> > authors, who are anonymous. They (he?) would have to give up that
> > anonymity just to initiate legal action. Not to mention engaging a bunch
> > of lawyers for a settlement worth zero....
> >
> > Would hijacking the TrueCrypt source like this be unethical?
> > Perhaps. But I would still love to see someone give it a whirl.
> I had a similar thought.
>
> What it really comes down to is the goal of such an effort.  If what you
> want is a hacker's toy, there's probably nothing anyone could do to stop
> it.  The record and movie companies have been trying to stop unauthorized
> copying for years to little effect - and they have huge amounts of capital,
> both monetary and political, to throw at the problem.
>
> On the other hand, no corporation large enough to hire a lawyer would
> touch the resulting code.  Too many unknowns; too much uncertainty.  Bad
> for business.  If you succeed, you're just creating a pot of money worth
> suing over.
>
> The situation is analogous to RSA back in the days when the patents on it
> were still live.  Eventually, the patents ran out and RSA became a tool
> everyone uses.  But copyright, unlike patents, for all practical purposes
> never runs out.
>
>                                                         -- Jerry
>
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