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Subject Author Date Re: DriveCrypt Peri Bathous 11-26-2008  Re: DriveCrypt Box750 11-26-2008
Posted by Peri Bathous on November 26, 2008, 6:11 pm If you were  Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options George Orwell wrote: > Has anyone had any experience with this program, I'd like an opinion > before I buy, how good is it? Forget Drivecrypt... there's at the very least three open source, time tested, free alternatives that aren't distributed by snake oil peddlers with strong ties to known net scum like the "Evidence Eliminator" spammers and Privacy.LIE criminals. > Q: Has the DriveCrypt Plus Pack encryption ever been broken/hacked? =20 Hard to say. We don't KNOW of any such incident, but it's quite possible DCPP even has some sort of "back door" coded right into it so that anyone with the keys can hack right in no problem. Let alone some flaw that someone discovered and hasn't released for obvious reasons. > A: No! In the past, we have also launched several contests offering up > to 100,000 US$ for the first person able to open a DriveCrypt encrypted > disk=E2=80=A6 =20 > =20 > Nobody succeeded! (See our press section for more details) =20 Anyone who knows anything about encryption software knows what a sham these sorts of challenges really are. They prove nothing. Smoke and mirrors designed to cover up the fact that you don't have enough faith in your own product to subject it to critical, expert analysis.=20 > Q: Is there a back door in your software? =20 > =20 > A: No. There is no "back door" in our software, and there is no point > in making one as we might risk losing the good reputation of our Tell it to the people at JAP, suckers. That little incident both highlighted the fact that encryption software absolutely CAN and IS back doored in spite of any concerns about "reputation", and how open source can be a viable tool against such attacks. > products. Besides this, today there is no law in Germany that can force > us to make one in our software. =20 ROTFL! JAP was back doored by the **German** authorities. <stupid shit snipped> Posted by Box750 on November 26, 2008, 11:39 pm If you were  Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options >> products. Besides this, today there is no law in Germany that can force >> us to make one in our software. =20 > > ROTFL! > > JAP was back doored by the **German** authorities. > Thats correct, and Hushmail was backdoored by the Canadian authorities at the request of the FBI. But a HD encryption product is different from a proxy or Email service, JAP and Hushmail both where backdoored to spy on a SINGLE individual, if you backdoor a HD encryption product then all users will be compromised regardless of who they are, this is not admissible by any country standards, US,Germany or France. It has been done in the past to intercept communications in mass, but this remains illegal and no court will authorise this. This kind of "intelligence" can not usually be used in court against you. -- Privacylover: http://www.privacylover.com Similar Threads Posted Re: DriveCrypt November 26, 2008, 8:45 am Re: DriveCrypt December 1, 2008, 9:40 am DriveCrypt July 7, 2009, 4:29 am bestcrypt 7.20 vs drivecrypt 4.4 December 18, 2006, 7:37 am DriveCrypt Plus Boot Problem November 16, 2008, 3:50 pm Drivecrypt won't open dcv file on DVD disk February 10, 2008, 11:57 am Drivecrypt pre-boot auth versus multiple users October 11, 2005, 3:12 pm