Mr. XXXX,
I read the article “Prepper Digital Security“, by A.B. and would like
to offer a couple of comments.
The article mentions the use of
TrueCrypt. I was a serious user of this software package until June of this
year after Microsoft ceased support of Windows XP.
When that happened, the development
of TrueCrypt was ended with very little explanation. I run Ubuntu Linux and
used TrueCrypt. Now that development has stopped, I cannot get updates so am no
longer protected if NSA finds another exploit.
The website has the following to say:
WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not
secure as it may contain unfixed security issues.
This page exists only to help
migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt.
The development of TrueCrypt was
ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows
8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual
disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms
(click here for more information). You should migrate any data encrypted by
TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.
A more exhaustive analysis of the
termination of support is found online.
So, what to do? As a computer
software engineer with many years of experience in systems development, I have
concluded that nothing is secure. If the government wants your data, it will
get your data using whatever backdoor function it can gin up, not legally, and
with or without force, torture, or financial ruin.
This is especially true in this day
and age when we have “nation states” writing cyberwarfare applications, like
Stuxnet.
I’ll leave it at that. I won’t make
an effort to suggest any specific solution, since any I suggest could be
circumvented by our government. – J.H.
From
the Survival Blog
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