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It sounds like one of those toy rebranding exercises. Where they take a TV character, add armour (that never appeared in the TV show), and sell it as 'Battle Pony' or something.
Or maybe Ming's Zord, in a Power Rangers crossover that I now want to see.
The title used to say "The Founder: how the creator of TrueCrypt became a criminal masterming". I just fixed the typo to "mastermind". Thanks @bryanrasmussen !
Edit: It has now been updated by the mods to its current title. It went through "The Founder", "The Founder: Interview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind", and "Inverview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind", and probably manually demoted from the #1 spot.
I understand the rules of non-editorialization of titles (unless you're the article author, the you can click-bait as you wish), but it seems even the mods understand the need to provide context.
Him being behind TrueCrypt is only speculation. There is no proof that it was him, and he denies it himself. There's only some limited circumstantial evidence.
>According to the TrueCrypt Team, Hafner claimed in the email that the acknowledged author of E4M, developer Paul Le Roux, had stolen the source code from SecurStar as an employee
Yes, he is an alleged TrueCrypt author. What's for sure, is that he was the author of E4M, upon which source code TrueCrypt was initially based, according to the same wikipedia page:
My understanding is that it's the same journalist who wrote that story/book being interviewed in the podcast (Evan Ratliff). Either way, the Atavist piece is a great read and very nicely presented
As aosaigh said, it's the same author interviewed on the podcast. In addition to the Atavist magazine's publication, his book came out a few weeks ago.
I had never heard of the story before, and now I can't wait for biopic :-)
I read the book from Amazon and done with it in just one day. If you are smart and have bad intentions, the book shows how far a mastermind can go in his vicious world.
can someone tl;dr this? what kind of crimes did he commit?
edit: the atavist article linked to elsewhere in these comments covers it:
"Paul Le Roux, the former head of a prescription drug, weapons, narcotics, and money laundering cartel, has been cooperating with the D.E.A. since 2012."
Also smuggling gold, literally having competing businesses burned to the ground, buying a ton (1000kg) of meth from North Korea, tried to smuggle it out in a submarine, having people killed for smaller and smaller things as he grew increasingly paranoid, then hiring another hitman to kill his main hitman, because he was stealing from him.
It's interesting that someone who wrote a tool called "Encryption for the masses" also happened to be involved in illegal crimes.
I don't mean "people who care about privacy etc. are criminals". But I can imagine a moral-panic of "but criminals write such software", and it doesn't undermine the value of using such software.
For what it’s worth, the story seems to be that he was out of writing said software before having the ideas for criminal enterprises. He was supposedly rather spiteful of freeloaders after releasing E4M, and went after the TrueCrypt authors in particular.
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Or maybe Ming's Zord, in a Power Rangers crossover that I now want to see.
Edit: It has now been updated by the mods to its current title. It went through "The Founder", "The Founder: Interview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind", and "Inverview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind", and probably manually demoted from the #1 spot.
I understand the rules of non-editorialization of titles (unless you're the article author, the you can click-bait as you wish), but it seems even the mods understand the need to provide context.
I only clicked because of your editoralization, and I'm very glad I did!
I don't think they ever mentioned TrueCrypt in the episode.
>According to the TrueCrypt Team, Hafner claimed in the email that the acknowledged author of E4M, developer Paul Le Roux, had stolen the source code from SecurStar as an employee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux#TrueCrypt_release...
https://www.amazon.com/Mastermind-Drugs-Empire-Murder-Betray...
There is also a competing book that just came out called Hunting LeRoux:
https://www.amazon.com/Hunting-LeRoux-Inside-Takedown-Crimin...
It is being developed into a film by Michael Mann
Based on reviews and my reading so far Mastermind from OP author seems like the real deal
I had never heard of the story before, and now I can't wait for biopic :-)
edit: the atavist article linked to elsewhere in these comments covers it:
"Paul Le Roux, the former head of a prescription drug, weapons, narcotics, and money laundering cartel, has been cooperating with the D.E.A. since 2012."
Under the podcast is a transcript you can skim.
I just did a HN search, but did not find any such thread.
Link: https://www.thetalkingmachines.com/
I don't mean "people who care about privacy etc. are criminals". But I can imagine a moral-panic of "but criminals write such software", and it doesn't undermine the value of using such software.
It’s very Breaking Bad.