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Paul Le Roux - Encryption Genius and Criminal Mastermind In a time of chaos and change, an interesting story is in order... FROM CHAOS, COMES ORDER (Central Bank Digital Currency):    • FROM CHAOS, COMES ORDER...   Paul Le Roux is a fascinating character, whose story entails drugs, gold, arms dealing, North Koreans, Iranians, elite-level encryption, Somali pirates, women...and more women. Let's get into it. Part 1 - The Early Years: Paul Le Roux was born on Christmas Eve, 1972, in Bulawayo, the second-largest city in what was then called—by the white minority that governed it, at least— Rhodesia. In 1980, Robert Mugabe became prime minister of what would now be called Zimbabwe, ending minority white rule in the country. Four years later, when Le Roux was 12, the family relocated to South Africa. At 16, he dropped out of high school and decided to follow his interest in computers, taking a local programming course. Family lore has it that after he spent one class explaining some technical fact to the teacher, he got a letter saying he no longer needed to attend. He then completed a year’s worth of material in eight weeks. Accounts of Le Roux do indicate that he was exceptionally gifted. After returning from a family holiday to Disneyland in the US, 17-year-old Le Roux decided to leave South Africa, and departed for the UK eight months later to work as a programmer. Le Roux had started building E4M - Encryption for the Masses - in 1997, releasing it at the end of 1998. Part 2 - The Turning Point: E4M allowed users to encrypt entire hard drives, and to conceal the existence of encrypted files (such that prying eyes wouldn't even know they were there). According to Le Roux, the software was written from scratch, with thousands of hours going into its development and testing. In the spirit of the open-source software movement in the late 90s, Le Roux released E4M for free and made the code available for other people to improve. In 2000, in order to monetize E4M, Le Roux launched SW Professionals.  Based in South Africa, the company offered offshore programming, including E4M customization. One of Le Roux's clients was an Italian telecoms engineer called Wilfried Hafner, who had corresponded with Le Roux for several years about E4M.  Hafner had founded a company to create a commercial encryption product that would combine some of the elements of E4M with another piece of software, Scramdisk. The new company would be called SecurStar, and its product would be called DriveCrypt. Hafner hired Le Roux to build DriveCrypt's underlying engine. However, in the middle of the development work for DriveCrypt, Hafner discovered that Le Roux was still working on E4M and had incorporated some of his work for SecurStar into his personal project. As a result, Hafner terminated Le Roux's contract. In 2004, a group of anonymous developers did exactly what Hafner had feared: they released a new and powerful, free file-encryption program, called TrueCrypt, built on the code for E4M. TrueCrypt combined security and convenience, giving users the ability to strongly encrypt files or entire disk drives while continuing to work with those files as they would a regular file on their computer. Hafner and his SecurStar colleagues suspected that Le Roux was part of the TrueCrypt collective but couldn't prove it... Part 3 - Money and Power: After Le Roux's departure from the encryption world, at least under his own name, he entered the Internet-pharmacy business. He turned over around $300MM in 4 years, and Le Roux's appetite only grew after that... Le Roux's businesses expanded into logging, precious metals mining, gold smuggling, land deals, cocaine shipping, and arms dealing. These activities were spread across dozens of shell companies registered all over the world. Part 4 - "Well done gentlemen": In order to capture Le Roux, the DEA needed to undertake a string operation... Part 5 - TrueCrypt: A fascinating aspect of this story is Le Roux's connection to encryption software TrueCrypt and the ramifications of this... Sources: The making of a criminal mastermind | The Big Boss: A 21st Century Criminal | Part 1:    • The making of a criminal mastermind | The ...   The fall of a criminal mastermind | The Big Boss: A 21st Century Criminal | Part 2:    • The fall of a criminal mastermind | The Bi...   Elaine Shannon, "Hunting LeRoux", Interview:    • Elaine Shannon, "Hunting LeRoux"   PATREON TO TIP OR ACCESS EXCLUSIVE CONTENT:   / financeoptimum   DISCLAIMER: NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE