Truecrypt domain registed with a false address Truecrypt developers identity hidden Truecrypt developers working for free All of these points also apply to I2P, most of them also apply to Freenet, and for the most part it all applies to Bitcoin as well. As far as I know nobody knows who actually made I2P other than some pseudonyms, Freenet it is known who made it but he works for donations, Bitcoin nobody knows who made it but a pseudonym and he works for free but probably actually made himself a lot of money in doing so. I don't know who is maintaining GPG or follow it that closely, but I imagine they are doing it entirely for free. Most of the open source security software is entirely free, hell just look at OpenSSL it is a truly massive cryptographic library that is entirely free. The point is that any one of these points isn't unique to hardly any security project that is not funded by a corporation, and in the cypherpunk scene projects falling under all three of these criteria are not really out of place at all. You have three distinct groups, the corporate people doing shit for money, the academic people doing shit for knowledge and then the cypherpunks doing shit for ideology and knowledge as well, and the cypherpunk people are generally pretty pseudonymous themselves. Compiling Truecrypt source code increasingly difficult No idea, I am sure because of compiler options it is a bit difficult to get source code to compile exactly to the released binaries, but the thing is if you can do it once then you can validate the source code and the binary. It isn't like they are releasing a closed source product. Truecrypt license contains distribution restrictions Lots of people have always bitched about Truecrypts license, I think it is fine, I am not a license zealot ready to strap a suicide vest on for GPL like some people are. Truecrypt removed from The Amnesic Incognito Live system Doesn't mean anything really Truecrypt open source code has never been reviewed This is the biggest concern of all, I certainly have not analyzed Truecrypt and I don't know if anybody else has but I imagine so considering it is open source and popular. Censorship at Truecrypt forums Is kind of sketchy, Truecrypt forums have a bit of a reputation for being totalitarian shit hole, definitely sketchy Can the FBI crack Truecrypt? Not likely at all from what I have seen Can the NSA crack Truecrypt? Maybe, who knows. I don't. Conclusion about Truecrypt reliability read the source code let me know how it looks k thnz bye