Am 02.06.2014 10:22, schrieb Dale: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am 01.06.2014 14:31, schrieb Tanstaafl: >>> Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when >>> playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all >>> time favorite apps, is no more. >>> >>> Some links of interest: >>> >>> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/truecrypt_wtf.html >>> >>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7812133 >>> >>> http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/505372-truecrypt-is-dead?page=1 >>> >>> >> well, if true: good riddance. But I suspect some hacker-y or power >> struggle. >> >> > I'm considering encrypting my home partition one of these days.
why? if you are hacked, they just read what you are reading. Encryption does not help you there at all. If your box is used by the state against you they just force you to give them the keys. Just rm -rf /home if they a knocking on your door.
