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Since Truecrypt is mentioned, I am going to use this place to highly recommend the book Mastermind. The that Truecrypt was based on named E4M was written by a man with quite an insane life story. He created a massive criminal enterprise.


For someone that wants to quickly get to the action:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

> In 2019, Evan Ratliff—who wrote a series of articles about Le Roux for The Atavist Magazine—published The Mastermind, a 446-page account of Le Roux's ventures.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549566/the-mastermi...




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