October 2015

TrueCrypt Travails Continue

The credibility of the TrueCrypt encryption application is in tatters following the discovery of two serious flaws in the code. Its anonymous developers abandoned the open source TrueCrypt project in May 2014, and since then no updates to the code have been released. Link: TrueCrypt Travails Continue

DoJ to Apple: your software is licensed, not sold, so we can force you to decrypt

The DoJ is currently trying to force Apple to decrypt data stored on a defendant’s Iphone, and Apple, to its great credit, is fighting back, arguing that on the one hand, it doesn’t have the technical capability to do so; and on the other, should not be required to do so. Link: DoJ to Apple: …

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