Nope done one and it was NOT easy!  It was easier to replace.
 
Jon
 
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 11:33:49 -0500
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Hmmm.... TrueCrypt
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]

Garbage disposal.  Should be easy...right?  ;)

- WJR
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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
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 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.


 
                                          

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