Truecrypt collects $ 150,000, but why?
On the site of a well-known and widely used disk encryption program on the fly, Truecrypt just recently announced that developers had begun an active fundraising through the donation mechanism already in place, and intend to collect $ 150,000.
Commendable desire could not leave numerous users indifferent (recall that the latest version of the program, released a year ago, downloaded more than 2 million people) and they began to actively fold. At the moment, as can be seen from the screenshot, 10 thousand have already been collected.
But some started asking questions on the forum about the purpose of collecting such a large amount. This led to a lively discussion of all possible and impossible goals of using the funds received, in which representatives of the company that produces Truecrypt themselves do not participate and do not give explanations. Among the interesting moments reflected in the topic (caution, English!), It should be noted new features that users would like to see implemented in new versions of the software product: such as working with tokens, the ability to better counter the so-called. cold boot attacks, and even the transfer of functionality to the android platform!
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Let's hope that soon the situation will at least clear up a little, and what popular funds will be spent will still be brought to the notice of the working people!
Commendable desire could not leave numerous users indifferent (recall that the latest version of the program, released a year ago, downloaded more than 2 million people) and they began to actively fold. At the moment, as can be seen from the screenshot, 10 thousand have already been collected.
But some started asking questions on the forum about the purpose of collecting such a large amount. This led to a lively discussion of all possible and impossible goals of using the funds received, in which representatives of the company that produces Truecrypt themselves do not participate and do not give explanations. Among the interesting moments reflected in the topic (caution, English!), It should be noted new features that users would like to see implemented in new versions of the software product: such as working with tokens, the ability to better counter the so-called. cold boot attacks, and even the transfer of functionality to the android platform!
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Let's hope that soon the situation will at least clear up a little, and what popular funds will be spent will still be brought to the notice of the working people!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/124493/
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