Erk… so the saga is To Be Continued?
-sc From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 4:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Hmmm.... TrueCrypt Same for me. 1/3HP unit. New one is 3/4HP, and larger. (Decreasing available area for my fat a$$ to wiggle around in.) Yeah somewhere in the housing. I didn't have the energy to get down in the floor one more time, so I went to AMZ and did the replacement thing and went to try to pull myself into the bed. :/ - WJR 🙈🙉🙊 On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: Lovely. When mine went, and I pulled it out, it was a 1/3rd unit. Apparently they don’t even SELL units that small… it had to have been a real “builder’s grade special” that was nice and cheap… So was a new one leaking thru the housing?? -sc From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 2:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Hmmm.... TrueCrypt Aye. New mounting system as well. The old one had 13 years to get well settled in too. - WJR <http://img.fark.net/images/cache/300/P/P8/fark_P8ca9g3JYtiUpYHcoybp50DVlP8.jpg?t=y5zYYeD7rgD7YmdeiqdAAA&f=1402286400> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: Erk. New unit?? -sc From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 12:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Hmmm.... TrueCrypt 6 hours...and in the end, it leaks like a sieve. Through the disposal housing, not the piping. - WJR 🙈🙉🙊 On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: Having done a couple…. Nope. -sc From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 12:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Hmmm.... TrueCrypt Garbage disposal. Should be easy...right? ;) - WJR 🙈🙉🙊 On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: Which project were you repairing? -sc From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Robbins Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Hmmm.... TrueCrypt Agreed. I should probably have been more verbose than my "Maybe?" but I was in the midst of a home repair project. ;) - WJR 🙈🙉🙊 On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 5:46 PM, William Robbins <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe? > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/06/01/1922248/the-sudden-policy-change-in-truecrypt-explained Slashdot is linking to a blog that's quoting Twitter posts that appear to be incoherent speculation. (I think. It's hard to tell with Twitter.) Anyway, as I read it, the speculation is that this is a warrant canary. Except... it can't be. The issue arises because the gov't can serve you with a warrant or other legal instrument that includes a gag order preventing you from even talking about it. A "warrant canary" is some thing you preemptively maintain as a countermeasure to such. You announce you're maintaining this canary. Then, if you get served, you stop maintaining the canary. The classic example is a daily announcement "We haven't received a warrant". The day you don't post that, everyone knows you just got served.[1] Suddenly yanking the project, without explanation or previously established meaning, is not a warrant canary. It might be what happens when you don't *have* a warrant canary, but that's the exact opposite meaning of the term. So... <shrug> -- Ben [1] The theory is, the gov't can prevent you from saying "I've been served with a warrant", but can't force you to speak untruth. Whether that actually works in reality, I have no idea.
