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He Always Had a Dark Side

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Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by casca »

RyanZAG wrote: post #13

> Lulu told me that when Le Roux was 15 or 16, in the late 1980s, the local police raided the family home and arrested Paul for selling pornography online. This seems a bit odd to me, having lived in South Africa at that time. There's almost no way a guy at home would have had that kind of access in Apartheid South Africa to the internet back then. There was access, but it was through big companies or academia and on…

There was a small community in South Africa that used to connect to the Internet around that time by dialing into X.25-connected modems. These seemed to be owned by banks or insurance companies, and would allow break-outs to US modems that allowed local calling to ISPs. The information about the numbers and credentials were shared on local BBSs.

Source: was personally involved

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by vanattab »

beeboop wrote: post #41
j1vms wrote: post #17

Could someone post a one or two paragraph TL;DR for people in here who don't have the time right now to read the entire piece? You can reasonably assume we do already a) know what tcrypt is, and b) know about the discontinuation annoucement almost two years ago. May the upvotes then be with you.

Really the only "big" information presented is that Paul Le Roux, a man arrested recently by the DEA, is very very likely the same person who was the early leader of TrueCrypt. It discuses his background a lot - he was an extremely intelligent child and teenager, who started shady business practices as early as 16 when he was arrested for selling porn. He was rather poor and led a shaky life in his early twenties, an…

>The final "big" bombshell is that his biological mother is the wife of a US senator, but there's nothing to really collaborate that other than the word of the anonymous soruce.

His biological GRANDmother is supposedly married to a senator.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom »

RoboErectus wrote: post #40
RyanZAG wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but from a teenager in Krugersdorp? And South Africa did not have such easy access to the international telephone market. The country was in the middle of economic sanctions at the time - international calls had to be placed through a switchboard with the government run telecom monopoly provider - Telkom. They also cost a literal arm and a leg for a couple minutes and were heavily monitored by the Apartheid regim…

As a teenager in the US, it was one of my main activities, so I can believe the age. I'm not sure about how it would go in SA.

> I'm not sure about how it would go in SA.

In Krugersdorp in the late 1980s? And the police were on the case - both in terms of being tech-savy enough, and not having more pressing concerns? (1)

Let's say that it's an extra-ordinary claim and we'd like a little more weight behind it.

1) http://www.saha.org.za/ecc25/ecc_under_a_state_of_emergency....

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by golergka »

falsestprophet wrote: post #21
djloche wrote: post #6

>>"He was particularly protective of Le Roux’s birth mother, making me promise not to reveal her name. “Sad and interesting story,” he said. “His real mom’s mom is married to a U.S. Senator.” When I asked him who the Senator was, he said, “That I can’t say, mate. That’ll get me shot.”" This is probably a bigger story.

US Senators generally are not powerful enough to have people shot.

Having someone shot is pretty cheap.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by [deleted] »

beeboop wrote: post #41
j1vms wrote: post #17

Could someone post a one or two paragraph TL;DR for people in here who don't have the time right now to read the entire piece? You can reasonably assume we do already a) know what tcrypt is, and b) know about the discontinuation annoucement almost two years ago. May the upvotes then be with you.

Really the only "big" information presented is that Paul Le Roux, a man arrested recently by the DEA, is very very likely the same person who was the early leader of TrueCrypt. It discuses his background a lot - he was an extremely intelligent child and teenager, who started shady business practices as early as 16 when he was arrested for selling porn. He was rather poor and led a shaky life in his early twenties, an…

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Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

ryandrake wrote: post #50

Thank you. It's amazing how some authors use thousands of words to deliver such little information.

> It's amazing how some authors use thousands of words to deliver such little information.

Well how else are you going to make it look like you really worked hard on something if you just give people exactly what they want right up front? /s

Seriously this article is bloated as HELL.

Edit: did anyone who downvoted me to hell even read the article? It's about 5% information, 95% useless bloat to fill the page. I mean damn...

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by [deleted] »

beeboop wrote: post #41
j1vms wrote: post #17

Could someone post a one or two paragraph TL;DR for people in here who don't have the time right now to read the entire piece? You can reasonably assume we do already a) know what tcrypt is, and b) know about the discontinuation annoucement almost two years ago. May the upvotes then be with you.

Really the only "big" information presented is that Paul Le Roux, a man arrested recently by the DEA, is very very likely the same person who was the early leader of TrueCrypt. It discuses his background a lot - he was an extremely intelligent child and teenager, who started shady business practices as early as 16 when he was arrested for selling porn. He was rather poor and led a shaky life in his early twenties, an…

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Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

djloche wrote: post #6

>>"He was particularly protective of Le Roux’s birth mother, making me promise not to reveal her name. “Sad and interesting story,” he said. “His real mom’s mom is married to a U.S. Senator.” When I asked him who the Senator was, he said, “That I can’t say, mate. That’ll get me shot.”" This is probably a bigger story.

Maybe? Most of this story is just an account of 1-2 people. Who knows if any of it is really true. I'm intrigued but unmoved without more data.

Re: He Always Had a Dark Side

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Post by myrbergs_army »

Original author of the story here... Just to add that 1. yes, the reporting on Le Roux's childhood is more tentative based on a family source (well backed up by docs and images sent to me). But the fact that the same Le Roux created E4M which formed the basis of TrueCrypt is something I think I've established definitively, company and site registration trails show it very firmly (and PLR himself admits it in court, but that comes in a later part of my story). And 2. for the _very_ interested, TC is actually just a small part of Le Roux's story, of which we've released three of seven parts (weekly on Thursdays). I know, TL;DR, it's a lot.
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