OStatic

You and I may have taken the 4th of July off, but the folks over at TrueCrypt didn't. Instead, they pushed out version 6.0 of their on-the-fly encryption utility, with more options than ever for protecting - and hiding - the critical data on your hard drives. Available for Linux, OS X, and Windows, the software is licensed under its own TrueCrypt license, which is not OSI-approved.

We don't normally cover security advisories here on OStatic. There's just not enough space to do them all justice, and besides, other folks do a fine job of tracking such things. But a recent vulnerability in the Debian version of OpenSSL is worth spending some time on, because it's a case where the open source system failed for a long time to do its job of producing quality software.