HackFest Series: TrueCrypt is Now Detectable

[Jim March]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
> Ah, you guys?
>
> This is about the ability to determine if:
>
> 1) a header has been encrypted
> 2) a drive has an encrypted partition
>
> etc...
>
> It's a security issue.
>
> Not so much of a political one.  That's OT, I believe?

Like hell it is.

You can't determine the need for a given encryption process or the
risk that it will be forced out of you without knowing the political
environment.

ALL encryption is about politics, about your relationship with your neighbours.

You don't get that yet?!?

Jim