The FBI spent a year trying to crack a banker’s hard drive. They failed. The encryption was from TrueCrypt—free, open source. Today its maintained successor is VeraCrypt, still free and on GitHub. In 2008, Brazilian police seized five drives from banker Daniel Dantas. Brazil ran dictionary attacks for five months: nothing. The FBI tried for 12 more: nothing. In 2010, the drives went back to Brazil—still encrypted. TrueCrypt shut down in 2014 with a confusing “not secure” warning. But Mounir Idrassi had already begun improving the code; he released VeraCrypt in 2013. It’s actively maintained, and in 2016 an OSTIF-funded audit found issues that were patched (v1.19). What VeraCrypt offers: - No company holding your keys - No cloud escrow a court can unlock - Encrypt files, folders, USB drives, or full disks - Hidden volumes for plausible deniability Free. Open source. Audited. The math is the lock.(CyrilXBT)