This all makes sense to me, until you add in a few strange parts:

1) Why did they nuke all previous versions of the software? The disclaimer is there. There's was no need to nuke the old versions.
2) Why neuter v7.2 so it can't encrypt? Heck, why even release a neutered version? The disclaimer is there. If I was ending my work on a project, I wouldn't end it on 'here's a broken version, and I erased all the good versions.'
2) Why the unprofessional webpage, with screen shots? Screen shots take time to get, so if they spent time on this, why not spent a few extra minutes to make the page look nice as well?
3) Why nuke the TC forum on SourceForge? That makes ZERO sense.. I can't even begin to guess why ANYONE wanted the forum obliterated.

I personally don't know what to make of TrueCrypt's state... There's a lot of conflicting information and it's proving very hard to decide which parts are true and which are fabrications or speculations.

FWIW, I'm inclined to buy into the devs threw in the towel because they're just sick of dealing with it. But even that isn't a sure thing in my mind, it's just highest probability. Sick of it explains the abruptness of the site's change, as well. Doesn't really explain the other anomalies though.

But a close second is they the devs were some how coerced into removing their product from public availability. I'm not sure to what end, because obviously there's mirrors of the software, and already lots of talk about forking or developing something to do the same thing. TrueCrypt is currently the ONLY cross platform encryption solution that works so delightfully transparently on entire devices, or on file containers. TrueCrypt is also still the only crypto package with the built in 'plausible deniability' feature of hidden volumes. Yeah I know it's been shown to be fairly easy to prove the existence of a hidden volume, but you have to know to look and how to look. These features do make it uniquely positioned in the crypto software sphere.

Given the anonymous nature of the TrueCrypt developers, would we even believe someone who claimed to be a dev and gave us an explanation?

Not sure I would. I've read a lot of different articles and comments about this ordeal and I'm frankly not sure what to believe. I'm not sure if I'd believe someone if they said they were a dev.

I know we'd all laugh if the NSA came out publicly and said "we had nothing to do with it."

Oh, so, just because unchallenged, unconstitutional laws were passed, it's "legal" for the NSA to violate the constitution? Come on man, I know you're, or at least hope, you're just trying to play devils advocate here, but no matter which way you twist this, at the core, the NSA's activities are illegal. Just because we can't get a court to rule that the laws passed are unconstitutional doesn't mean it's right or even legal. We can't challenge it, they've made it difficult to do so.

I can't come up with a clever analogy, but this is exactly why some laws passed are struck down as unconstitutional. Just because a law was passed doesn't make it right, or even legitimate, and definitely not legal.

These laws empowering the NSA to do what they're doing would never stand a chance in a fair courtroom where the government wasn't allow to hide things under the guise of 'National Security', anyone with half a brain can see that.

It's pretty basic knowledge, at least to me, that if you want to ruin someone, just fabricate some pedo evidence regarding them. Law enforcement just jumps on that stuff at even the slightest suggestion someone might be up to it. Just being accused is enough to ruin most people's lives.

For the computer savvy, this is even easier to do if you can gain access to your target's computer(s). And I would suspect it's really hard to prove your innocence if accused. And in my opinion, this is one of those crimes, if accused, you are presumed guilty and must prove your innocence, not the other way around.

I really can't think of any other crime where simply possessing a photograph could result in years of prison and complete destruction of someone's livelihood. Pedo is definitely a really disgusting crime, but does the witch hunt need to be so intense against it that it facilitates using this crime against the innocent?

So you're trying to say... it's ok the NSA is doing what they're doing, because some unconstitutional laws were passed and have not been successfully challenged (this is an entirely different can of worms) in court as unconstitutional? Really? Please try reading this to yourself several times and think of how assbackwards this line of thinking is.

I find it interesting that a large number of people are crying for Snowden to be brought to justice, yet the squeaking about the NSA's law breaking is barely audible.

We got plenty of NSA goons breaking the law every day, and they're all right here in the US, easy to snag and prosecute. Where is the outcry for justice?

Everyone is so focused on Snowden, they're looking completely in the wrong direction. FORGET SNOWDEN, take a good damn hard look at what he's shown us, or this man has suffered for nothing, his law breaking was a complete waste. It doesn't even matter what you think of Snowden's actions. They're done, and we need to look at what he's shown us, and look very hard, keep the bright light on the NSA, Snowden is and always was irrelevant, only the information he's made public matters.

Americans don't want justice it appears, they just want someone to blame with a face and name, which the NSA seems to lack at the moment. Put some faces and names to the lawbreakers in the NSA, goddamn people what is the matter with you?

Again, what about the NSA? Snowden broke the law, no question there. The NSA not only broke the law, they're still at it, every day. How can you advocate punishing Snowden while the NSA continues to break the law? At least Snowden is done with his law breaking.

So what about the rest of the NSA? They're breaking the law every day, all day. What should we do about them?

I'm not for touching Snowden with any legal repercussions of his actions until the NSA is held accountable for their violations of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and outright lying to congress under oath.

You can't have it both ways, you can't say Snowden is a traitor and the NSA is not, and advocate for punishing one and not the other. The NSA is hugely more guilty of law breaking than Snowden could ever hope to be. When I see some bigwigs of the NSA behind bars, then I'll accept Snowden needs to serve some time (not life) for his supposed crime of enlightening the rest of us of the huge disregard for the law the NSA has shown.

Cloud computing is definitely cool and useful for many tasks. I've migrated all my home based server things to an EC2 instance and quite pleased with the results. I however would NEVER advocate ditching my home based General Purpose computer in exchange for a thin client and a cloud backed CPU.

It just sets a bad precedent for one. I immediately think of bad things like the GP computer going byebye and everyone having to rent time from a cloud compute CPU to do anything useful. Not to mention the surveillance implications of having all your stuff only accessible by remote (meaning others can access it by remote as well.)

Cloud computing has a place, but it is NOT a replacement for the home based General Purpose computer.

If you consider plotting a real crime against the government or people of the US as 'offending an official', I might buy into that. Other than that, this statement is from fantasy land.

Well, on my wireless I get 2ms latency, that's usable. Depends on your wifi equipment, how many other signals are around you and such, I think.

PING braveheart (10.0.0.5) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from braveheart (10.0.0.5): icmp_req=1 ttl=128 time=2.27 ms
64 bytes from braveheart (10.0.0.5): icmp_req=2 ttl=128 time=1.92 ms
64 bytes from braveheart (10.0.0.5): icmp_req=3 ttl=128 time=1.86 ms
64 bytes from braveheart (10.0.0.5): icmp_req=4 ttl=128 time=1.89 ms
64 bytes from braveheart (10.0.0.5): icmp_req=5 ttl=128 time=1.37 ms
64 bytes from braveheart (10.0.0.5): icmp_req=6 ttl=128 time=1.40 ms
64 bytes from braveheart (10.0.0.5): icmp_req=7 ttl=128 time=1.90 ms
64 bytes from braveheart (10.0.0.5): icmp_req=8 ttl=128 time=1.80 ms
64 bytes from braveheart (10.0.0.5): icmp_req=9 ttl=128 time=1.98 ms
64 bytes from braveheart (10.0.0.5): icmp_req=10 ttl=128 time=1.83 ms
^C
--- braveheart ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9013ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.374/1.826/2.278/0.255 ms

This is a pretty nice feature they added. It's much better than VNC or any other remote desktop software I've tried. About my only complaint was the mouse was a bit laggy running Skyrim.

But seeing Skyrim stream pretty much flawlessly to computer than can BARELY play 1080p videos without some chop was pretty amazing.

+1 Steam ^.^

Are you a shill or just plain stupid? The result of letting the internet do it's own thing is exactly what is the problem. They're trying to create a two tier internet and slow down people who don't pay a premium for acceptable service.

And how is it exactly we're supposed to vote with our feet when there's like 2 internet providers (in a lot of cases just 1) available to any one location?

I think this is a stretch of imagination. If the USA was a bad as this statement makes us appear to be, then why is Ladar Levison free and able to talk to us? I would think he'd have disappeared without a sound and Lavabit would've been confiscated quietly.

While I agree, the Police States of America are getting a bit out of hand, it ain't quite this bad. Not yet at least. Headed there, but I like to believe it's not too late to take a different road.

You don't shop much do you? Do you have any idea how hard it is to find any household items not made in China?