People want reliability, commitment, and encryption. Hacker News | New security issue at Dropbox.

Dropbox oversimplified a few points related to security, favouring a brief explanation that was not entirely accurate. via Internet security: Keys to the cloud castle | The Economist.

Before: Dropbox employees aren’t able to access user files, and when troubleshooting an account, they only have access to file metadata (filenames, file sizes, etc. not the file contents). Now: Dropbox employees are prohibited from viewing the content of files you store in your Dropboxaccount, and are only permitted to view file metadata (e.g., file [...]

“The announcement that they are able to decrypt the files on behalf of the government contradicts their prior public statements. They claim that Dropbox employees aren’t able to access user files. This announcement means that Dropbox never had any mechanism to prevent employees from accessing your files, and it means that Dropbox never had the [...]

Well-designed systems NEVER store passwords. via France to require cleartext password storage – Boing Boing and Net giants challenge French data law

A PasswordCard is a credit card-sized card you keep in your wallet, which lets you pick very secure passwords for all your websites, without having to remember them. You just keep them with you, and even if your wallet does get stolen, the thief will still not know your actual passwords. Your PasswordCard has a [...]

KeePassX – cross platform app for secure personal data management KeePassX is an application for people with extremly high demands on secure personal data management. It has a light interface, is cross platform and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachments [...]

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Crypt Crypt is a application for encrypting and decrypting files or folders with a password of your choice. Crypt3 uses 256bit AES encryption in cipher-block chaining mode. The encryption format is open and can be decrypted on any platform that has openssl, tar (tags: MacOSX OSX application applications encryption freeware mac macintosh security software utilities [...]