somebody <x### [at] ycom> wrote:
> TrueCrypt sounds exactly like the type of program FBI would write and
> release, without disclosing the backdoor, of course.

  Except that TrueCrypt is open source. That more or less ensures that it
doesn't do anything behind the scenes.

> Also, if the investigators fill with true random bits the sections that you
> have encrypted, before turning it over, can you sue them for lost data?

  But then, how do they know that they are overwriting encrypted data?
They have no way of proving that a certain file is actually encrypted
rather than containing some data used by some program.

  They might as well destroy all your files. Do they perform such a
vandalism?

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                                                          - Warp

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