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TrueCrypt 5.0 Released, Now Encrypts Entire Drive

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wear-a-condom-people dept.

A funny little man writes "The popular open source privacy tool, TrueCrypt, has just received a major update. The most exciting new feature provides the ability to encrypt an entire drive, prompting the user for a password during boot up; this makes TrueCrypt the perfect tool for non-technical laptop users (the kind who are likely to lose all of that sensitive customer data). The Linux version receives a GUI and independence from the kernel internals, and a Mac version is at last available too."

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  1. a pity the British government won't use it by tolworthy · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not by Microsoft. Plus they don't have much data left to lose.

  2. How to DDoS your favorite open source project. by Scott+Lockwood · · Score: 3, Funny

    Step 1: Post on Slashdot
    Step 2: ???
    Step 3: Profit!

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  3. Downloading by margam_rhino · · Score: 3, Funny

    I will just wait until you pesky North Americans are in bed and download in the morning UK time, ha ha. Wait, no, everyone forget I said that! Aww, now you all will try then.

  4. Encryption is for terrorists. by w3bd4wg · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads/transient/9b6d4c43d4/TrueCrypt%205.0%20Source.zip Forbidden You don't have permission to access /downloads/transient/9b6d4c43d4/TrueCrypt 5.0 Source.zip on this server. Apache/1.3.34 Server at www.truecrypt.org Port 80 I cannot get the source. The NSA has removed it.

  5. Re:The final excuse. by rizole · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about; "what's my password?"

  6. Re:Not sure it matters by Bobb+Sledd · · Score: 3, Funny

    What can I say. I needed the karma.

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  7. Re:Independence from Kernel Internals? by skeeto · · Score: 2, Funny

    unless your BIOS has encryption support (which it doesn't), you can't have an encrypted boot partition. [...] Note that bios limitations can also be circumvented with linuxbios ;)

    Of course, then your BIOS isn't encrypted, so you encrypt it and need another one below that to decrypt it, but then that bottom one isn't encrypted.

    It's encrypted boot code all the way down!

  8. Re:Independence from Kernel Internals? by mrv20 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would certainly explain firefox's load time :b

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  9. Re:The final excuse. by mrv20 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember hearing a story that I would dearly love to be true about someone who kept forgetting their ATM PIN so rather than make the mistake of writing it on a bit of paper that they carry with the card, they wrote it in permanent marker on the housing of their local ATM.

    Seemed pretty smart, as dumb ideas go.

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