It works well enough on a touchscreen PC, but for those not willing to shell out a grand for a glorified typewriter....well,llet's just say that cracking the screen on my new Win8 laptop wasn't the worst thing to happen that day.
Yep, just patched up the family PC this afternoon. I still stand by my recommendation to people to upgrade to either 7 or 8.1 in the next six months, as this is only the beginning for XP. Security flaws will become large and critical before long, especially now that Microsoft won't be around to patch and fix.
I'm still supporting XP. I got over a million dollars worth of software that won't come close to working on 7. Way too many security changes for no apparent reason. Microsoft can take session 0 and shove it right up their asses.
The developers of TrueCrypt have pulled the plug on the software, citing the death of XP as a reason: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/true-goodbye-using-truecrypt-is-not-secure/
That's the mystery. Truecrypt was available for Windows, OSX, Linux, iOS, Android, and a couple of other OSes, IIRC, so XP dying shouldn't have impacted the other versions, but they've all been killed as well.
I wonder if there's something in 7/8 that prohibits software like TrueCrypt from being totally secure.
That doesn't explain them pulling the plug on the OSX and other versions, though. The software's free, so its not like they were going to lose money because of XP being killed.
And neither does anybody else, though many people suspect there's some kind of connection to the NSA.
It's possible. If TrueCrypt worked like they said it did, then the backdoor that the NSA has into Microsoft's operating systems might have shut them out, and if the people behind TrueCrypt decided not to acquiesce to some polite suggesting, they may have decided to simply shut it all down.
And two years later, a replacement program has passed an independent audit. You can find the software here.
