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Jan. 12, 2010

Thanks to our faithful beta testers*, the new release of Passpack Desktop is ready for you to download and install.

(instructions & FAQ here if you need them)

What’s New?

Many of your favorite features from Passpack.com:
- bulk entry management
- see your people tab (read only)
- click icons to copy content from your list
- updated entry window
Offline only entries clearly marked with “local” tag.
Sync and view shared passwords [hooray!]
Sync tags and favorites settings from online (optional)
And the ever-important: shiny black chrome

Passpack Desktop is Your Best Backup

Should you ever get stuck without an internet connection – you’ll be really happy you have a copy of all your important passwords in your Passpack Desktop.

So install it now.

If you have never installed Passpack Desktop before, or do not know how to synchronize it, it’s pretty easy. Just read the instructions here.

* Two notes for beta testers: (1) Just go to Tools > Downgrade to stable version and your Beta version will be upgraded to the latest stable release. (2) Thank you!!!

New Passpack Desktop: Want to Beta Test?

Jan. 3, 2010

Happy 2010! We almost missed the new year since we’ve been toiling away on the internal alpha testing of the new Passpack Desktop release. Before a formal release, we’d love your help beta testing it – interested?

Here’s what’s new:

Many of your favorite features from Passpack.com

bulk entry management
see your people tab (read only)
click icons to copy [...]

Yubikey:Two Factor or Third Party?

Nov. 30, 2009

There are a lot of USB drives aimed at improving login security. The Yubikey is my favorite. It is compact and smart, and now you can use it to sign in Passpack.
Tara met Stina Ehrensvärd, CEO & Founder of Yubico, during Red Herring’s ETRE 2008, in Stockolm. In that occasion, Stina gave a Yubikey to [...]

Double Thanks, with Two Factor Authentication

Nov. 28, 2009

While Americans were feasting on turkey and stuffing yesterday*, Francesco was back in Italy putting the final touches on the next release: Two Factor Authentication.
This is a first roll-out using a one time code which will be sent to you via email during sign in to your Passpack account. You can choose the email you’d [...]

Issues with Help Ticket System

Nov. 24, 2009

Today I discovered a strange issue with our ticket system. In the last two months, it randomly marked some tickets as “closed”. So we didn’t answer them because we didn’t know of them.
I had a look to the “false closed” tickets and I saw that the most of them were requests for deleting the account [...]

Google Friend Connect Support is Ready!

Nov. 19, 2009

As you probably know, two days ago a user alerted us about an issue with the access via Google/Gmail procedure.
We temporarily sidestepped the problem avoiding the creation of new accounts via Google/Gmail, and immediately after this, started to work on the support of Google Friend Connect.
It was a bit complicated because Google Friend Connect doesn’t support [...]

Changing the Google access to Passpack

Nov. 17, 2009

This morning a smart user alerted me about a security issue in using Google/Gmail to access to the Passpack account.
I analyzed it and I discovered that Google has changed how Gmail authentication works, causing the library we use to fail. As result of this, we are preparing to support Google Friend Connect. In the meantime, [...]

Server Update: www2.passpack.com

Sep. 24, 2009

Just a quick notice. We just ran a migration on a few of our servers. The updates are now complete, all went well.
Due to some DNS issues, you may temporarily be redirected to https://www2.passpack.com (notice the 2) we just wanted to let you know that this is OK. You may login and use your account as [...]