May 20, 2022, 9:40 a.m. | /u/Beautiful5th

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Back in the 2000s and early 2010s there was constant media attention around TrueCrypt and how the police were unable to crack hard drives encrypted with it. Then in 2014 the developer of truecrypt just decided to quit the project, told everyone to use Bitlocker instead and disappeared for no apparent reason and the consensus amongst people was that the developer(s) of truecrypt were given a [national security letter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter) so instead of introducing a backdoor they decided to quit entirely …

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