TrueCrypt is a very good tool when one wants to encrypt its entire hard disk. This article describes a minor flaw in the design of TrueCrypt (and probably any other disk encryption tool) that leads to a backdoor on the attacked system.

Before there was OpenJDK, Linux distributions often lacked Java support at all or provided gcj as a very unpleasant alternative. A project that aimed at this issue was jpackage, who provided Source-RPMS to put Sun´s java downloads into sane RPMs. Unfortunately they do not seem to provide support for current versions of Sun´s java, now [...]