[Trundle]

I'm not sure there's a need for the author to be trying to encourage the audience to do anything. A central theme of the story is building Le Roux up to seem as big/talented/accomplished as possible. Things like the fact that he has logging and mining concerns are brought up repeatedly despite them not being directly related to him getting busted for meth, but they serve to keep you thinking "this guy is achieving a lot". You can pick it even from the title of the series.

Truecrypt is very well known amongst tech literate people and Snowden at least is well known amongst the rest. By repeatedly driving home the fact that Le Roux was responsible for the foundation of this software, it makes him seem more impressive in the readers mind.

[nickpsecurity]

I could see that. Yet, Truecrypt and its successes were some other group's work. He just made essentially the prototype that had enough functionality to give them a head start. In its original form, it wouldn't have achieved all the stuff described for Truecrypt in the article.

So, saying he made E4M that others' turned into Truecrypt... then dropping Truecrypt... is more honest if we're talking his accomplishments. Not Truecrypt developers' accomplishments.