The original post referenced an autogenerated htmlpage, derived from an
elderly man-page. The original post had no point, as man pages are not
hypertext and don't link anywhere.
The reference (to tcrypt) is outdated, since TC is dead and should be
removed. As simple as that.
Aside from that, the original post was (auto)generated as clickbait, it
just does not make sense at all. No human would write such a pile of
steaming bs.
Neither was TC 'shared' (claim) on the autogenerated page, nor is an
autogenerated html on some arbitrary host under cryptsetup project's
control (claim). Further there's no alternative to cryptsetups TC legacy
mode, as claimed by the mail. It is just part of cryptsetup and limited
to using the container. On top of that, the link to the blog post by
some mischievous company with the intention to get known better is
clickbaiting, no matter how you look at it.
And that certainly qualifies as spam.
Regards
-Sven
Am 03.01.2017 um 21:49 schrieb Laurence Darby:
I'm not sure if that was true before but it's not now.
The original point of this thread is that cryptsetup's man page is
still linking http://www.truecrypt.org as if that was still useful,
it's not spam at all.
Laurence
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 20:55:47 +0100 Arno Wagner wrote:
I had a look at it now and I agree. They apparently list LUKS
as a TrueCrypt alternative on Windows, which is just clueless.
Regards,
Arno
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 17:41:26 CET, Sven Eschenberg wrote:
Hi Arno,
I think this is simple UBE for clickbaiting. It's probably best to
blacklist the whole domain and the sending host on the server
handling the mailinglist.
Regards
-Sven
Am 28.12.2016 um 17:20 schrieb Arno Wagner:
Hi,
you are free to maintain your page yourself. I doubt
anybody here cares about it.
Regards,
Arno
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:49:19 CET, Sophie Hunt wrote:
Hi,
I appreciate that you're probably busy so I just wanted to
follow up on the email I sent you the other day; copy included
below for reference: On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Sophie
Hunt <sophie.hunt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I noticed you've shared TrueCrypt on this page
https://unstable.nl/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+cryptsetup, as
you may be aware, development of TrueCrypt was discontinued back
in 2014 and has subsequently not been maintained. A number of
security flaws have been uncovered and as a result we are
reaching out to people to highlight a list of alternatives.
Here's the list (along with further details about TrueCrypt
no longer being maintained) -
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/truecrypt-is-d
iscoutinued-try-these-free-alternatives/, when you update
your page it could be a useful resource to point your visitors
to. Please let me know if you have any questions.
-Sophie
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