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, and had a fairly strong anti-authoritarian belief, which is what led to his interest and development of TrueCrypt (and its predecessor projects that laid the foundation for TC).
He eventually started his pharmaceutical business and made hundreds of millions of dollars. According to sources, he became gradually "darker" as he got more money, including allegations he had people killed. And then recently he was arrested by the DEA.
The article got most of its information by a supposed relative - the reporter is convinced it's legitimate because of how much they know about Paul and their access to documents a non-family member is unlikely to have.
The other interesting new information is that his biological mother (edit: grandmother) is the wife of a US senator, but there's nothing to really collaborate that other than the word of the anonymous soruce.
There is no new information about the discontinuation of TC in this article. The article says that Paul disappeared from the crypto community (at least, under his own name) at about the time he started his pharma company (2004), but implied that he had worked on TC for the decade leading up to 2004. The anonymous source also said he "switched" to the pill selling, perhaps suggesting he left the TC project around that time in 2004.
If I had to guess, whoever was funding the TC developers stopped funding them. And the developers decided to move on with their lives, having worked on it for 15+ years, and possibly largely only doing so because they got paid. The "TrueCrypt is not secure" message was probably to imply that a lack of updates wasn't because they were confident they weren't needed, but rather because it was no longer maintained.
>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.
Given that this is part 3 of a series about a drug-lord, I suspect that the author is hinting/leading us to think that the "unknown financier" is Paul Le Roux, without blatantly stating it. (either as a teaser for part 4, or because there's not enough dots connected yet).
He eventually started his pharmaceutical business and made hundreds of millions of dollars. According to sources, he became gradually "darker" as he got more money, including allegations he had people killed. And then recently he was arrested by the DEA.
The article got most of its information by a supposed relative - the reporter is convinced it's legitimate because of how much they know about Paul and their access to documents a non-family member is unlikely to have.
The other interesting new information is that his biological mother (edit: grandmother) is the wife of a US senator, but there's nothing to really collaborate that other than the word of the anonymous soruce.
There is no new information about the discontinuation of TC in this article. The article says that Paul disappeared from the crypto community (at least, under his own name) at about the time he started his pharma company (2004), but implied that he had worked on TC for the decade leading up to 2004. The anonymous source also said he "switched" to the pill selling, perhaps suggesting he left the TC project around that time in 2004.
If I had to guess, whoever was funding the TC developers stopped funding them. And the developers decided to move on with their lives, having worked on it for 15+ years, and possibly largely only doing so because they got paid. The "TrueCrypt is not secure" message was probably to imply that a lack of updates wasn't because they were confident they weren't needed, but rather because it was no longer maintained.