This is scary. I was reading this piece about how Hushmail gave up the goods to the Canadian governments. For background, Hushmail’s been in the encrypted/anonymous email business for years now - they were supposed to be offering completely encrypted, they can’t even decrypt your emails type of service. In my head, they always seemed [...]

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I’ve spent a little more time thinking about Clipperz and Passpack (see my Clipperz review and my PassPack review for some background info). The short answer is - I think these are both worthy apps, with differences that will cause each one to appeal to different people. My preference is slightly towards Clipperz, except for [...]

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UPDATE: Marco (from Clipperz) just posted that they’re already hard at work on an iPhone version, hampered only by their lack of an iPhone. :) I’m excited, choice is good, competition makes everyone better.
So, one of the things I miss on my iPhone is a secure password management application. It doesn’t have one and Clipperz.com [...]

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So, in my switch from Fire to Adium which went completely without pain, as it turns out, I have discovered something really great. Adium has Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) built right in. This is an encryption package that makes having encrypted IM sessions really easy as long as both parties support OTR.
A lot of people say [...]

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