Fastfwd75 wrote:
Maybe they got into trouble with the government for not wanting to add a backdoor.
Lavabit had a similar problem when they were asked to hand over the confidential keys to owner's email.
http://lavabit.com
This seems like the most likely scenario given their opposition to proprietary encryption in the past. Recommending BitLocker is about as out of character for the Truecrypt folks as possible, almost as if it's so unbelievable as to be a message. But who knows? No one even knows who the developers are.