Happy September everyone! Last week we threw around some ideas on which OpenID providers to accept and more importantly which not to accept. There was a ton of feedback (thank you!) and in the end we decided that instead of a “whitelist”, the Sign In page will display icons of OpenID providers which work well [...]
Over the next few days, Passpack will be undergoing intermittent maintenance. You will be able to connect to Passpack as usual during the entire time, no significant gap in service is expected. However you may encounter short periods where your account is read-only. This means you will continue to have access to your account, but [...]
Passpack plans on contributing to the spread of OpenID by becoming a consumer! By the end of the summer you will be able to use your OpenID to login to your Passpack account. You heard it straight from the horse’s mouth. OpenID In A Nutshell OpenID is an open source authentication system which allows websites [...]
Travelers often find themselves using public computers and with public computers come security risks. The focus of such risks usually lies on one major concern: keyloggers. Passpack offers Disposable Logins (aka One Time Passwords) as protection against keyloggers, which you create before traveling. And there are numerous other tips available (here are a few from [...]
We’ve been doing a little experimenting on the Passpack blog lately. Mixing in some fun posts and lightweight topics. The sudden change in tone seems to have been less fun for readers than for the writers. Thinking back, I realize it would have been better to have given folks a chance to decide what they [...]
Update: This issue is fixed. We’ve received bug reports today about users creating a new account, but not being able to save their brand new packs. Upon pressing the Save All button, an “incoherent data” error was appearing. I do not have more details yet as to the cause of the error, but I’ve been [...]
Wow, this week has caused a mini buzz storm around Passpack. Here’s a few highlights. We released the Passpack Host-Proof Hosting Library We launched Passpack Desktop for Adobe AIR… …AND Passpack Offline Version for Google Gears We poked a few holes in Zero Knowledge Web Apps The discussion is languishing on that last one (anyone [...]
Just doing doing some quick bragging before heading out the door. We submitted Passpack Desktop to the Adobe AIR Marketplace, and it got immediately placed among the Adobe Staff Picks. There are some great apps in there. My favorites Twhirl and Snackr (though I have to regularly shut off both or I’d never get any [...]
Here is the Host-Proof Hosting Library on Google Code. Here is Passpack’s brand new Google Group (just a few lonely souls right now, but join up and we’ll be merry). My Buddy – Host-Proof Hosting. Where I go, It Goes. Security on the web has pretty much dominated my life in the past few months [...]
Lately, there’s been a lot of Adobe Air and Google Gears talk around here. Passpack Desktop has created quite the buzz among Adobe Air fans, but Google Gears fans have been leaving feedback too. So when I got to the office this morning I wasn’t surprised to hear that Francesco had reincorporated Google Gears into [...]
Since Yesterday, PayPal is not sending us confirmation notification of the payments. So the system is unable to update the status of the accounts. We could do this manually, but when PayPal will solve the issue, it will probably send all the notifications and this could create worse issues. So, we are waiting for a while. If nothing happens, we will fix the updates manually.
UPDATE, Jan. 29. The strategy worked because PayPal sent all the notification at one moment, and all the accounts have been upgraded correctly.
We completed the performance improvement of Passpack moving the static files on a new server. This improves also the general security because it is now much harder for an attacker to try to inject Javascript code.
Passpack has discontinued Google Gears support. It was used with slow browsers like Internet Explorer 6 or 7. If you use one of these browsers, probably your account will become really slow without Google Gears. We strongly suggest to upgrade to IE 9 or to a totally different browser like Chrome.
Follow-up to the last post, the billing system is completely functional again. Happy Tuesday!
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