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TrueCrypt Full Drive Encryption 'Hacked'
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If you're running as Administrator, or routinely let unsavory types have physical access to your machine, then your TrueCrypt full drive encryption might not be secure
Basically some guy's developed a 'BootKit' that captures the initial authentication that you do to the encryption at boot time.
TBH, if you're the sort of person that worries about having full drive encryption, then you're probably not going to get caught by this. Still an interesting read though.
If you are going to allow physical access to the machine, then nothing can stop breaking the encyption. You can install a keylogger on the keyboard, or build it into the same model keyboard and swap it, then swap it back later. You can't do anything about that realistically.
For the most important senarios theft, remote intrusion, etc, this is useless.
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