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TrueCrypt authors go to great to keep their identities hidden

I donated at least two times to them via PayPal. How anonymous could they be if they got funds via PayPal? Not very, in this day and age. I would image it's trivial for the US government to find their true names based on this fact alone.

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Since this thread is all about paranoia, how did you verify that anyone ultimately received the funds?

Obviously, I could not. truecrypt.org had a donate button which redirected to a paypal page, and I donated. I'm assuming they wouldn't set up a donation method that merely gave the funds to paypal.

What's their PayPal identity?

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