Or that people continue to bother him/her with bombarding emails, public cynical skepticism, baseless speculation, and more.
How about we stop bothering the poor developer(s) and let them be. They have already contributed more to the world than most of us here - time for them to get the well deserved rest they seek.
I'm happy to leave the dev alone. I don't really care about the dev one way or the other.
What I don't like is to have some piece of infrastructure I've come to depend on yanked out suddenly, being mislead about the reasons, and being left with only onerous alternatives (rewrite the whole thing or stick with 7.1a indefinitely). That these two options are onerous is not speculation or simply some kind of bad attitude. It is a fact.
Whether this action was deliberate or just incredibly clueless and negligent, treating TrueCrypt users this way is crappy, and I think it's OK to say so publicly. I'm grateful for the development of TrueCrypt. But that gratitude doesn't translate to a free pass for all subsequent terrible behavior afterward.
If the dev's identity was known, he/she might take a lot more heat than a few harsh words. Considering the needless trouble he's putting people through, a strongly-worded letter of protest is a pretty mild reaction.
Eh in reality any decision or assumption is no more then us putting ourselves in the developers shoes based on the few communications that have took place.
We likely won't know what happened for several years after, if we ever learn at all.
