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Passpack Facebook Fanpage

Passpack has just published a Facebook Fanpage! Yay!
Passpack’s blog has incorporated ‘Behind the Scenes’ and ‘Passpack Lounge’ but Facebook is where we will really have some fun.
Passpack’s RSS is incoporated in the fanpage so you don’t have to miss out on any posts. We will also be keeping you up-to-date on upcoming events and best [...]

Passpack’s Growing Team

The Passpack team is expanding all the time and we would like to keep you guys up to date on our new additions. You may have read the post on the women of Passpack, which gave you a taste of some of the crew but here are a few you haven’t met and a few [...]

A Password Worth Millions in San Francisco

It’s a classic suspense story – Man finds city job in computers. Man works there for 5 years. Man has a huge amount of data responsibility. Man is threatened to be fired. Man creates a password granting him exclusive access to the city IT system.
This Story Is Actually True…

Terry Childs, a 43-year-old computer [...]

Defining Privacy On The Web

The word privacy is thrown around all over the internet, usually accompanied by fingerpointing and all too often heavy lawsuits. But what does private really mean in a Web 2.0 world?
Do you have any of the following accounts (or all of them) – YouTube, MySpace, Facebook? These sites are slowly redefining your privacy and are [...]

Let’s Hope Your Password Is Not On This List

The average person has quite a bit to memorize just to get through a normal day: ATM PINs, voice mail access codes, coupon codes, bicycle lock combinations, student/work ID numbers, phone numbers, sometimes even a PIN just to turn your phone on… You get the idea. But what do people sacrifice just to lighten [...]

The “Who’s Who” Of Passpack Women

Francesco’s always making jokes about how he is constantly surrounded by women here at Passpack. I don’t blame him. It’s a small office and on a typical day the ratio of women/men is 4:1. It’s pretty evident that more and more women are making their way in front of the computer.
And some of these women [...]

10,278 Reasons Not To Take Your Laptop On Vacation

I take my laptop with me everywhere. I mean everywhere. My laptop has taken more vacations with me than my own sister. I never really worry about having it stolen because it is usually stuck to me everywhere I go. And like any responsible laptop owner, I back up my data.
But what if your back [...]

Tara In London Tommorrow – You?

Passpack has been selected to present at EASY London so the gang just me will be flying in tomorrow and staying for a few days.
If you’ll be in town – drop me an email
or catch me on Twitter.
Hopefully I’ll have my phone in working order by then*
* I’m in the process of trying to purchase [...]

Tara at TechGarage: How About You?

Tomorrow I’ll be attending TechGarage. If you’re in town for the event and want to meet up – let me know.
If you’re in Rome – you don’t want to miss out. Techcrunch UK journalist Mike Butcher will be present, as well as 20+ Italian startups and our friends over at Intruder TV.

Passpack won’t be pitching, [...]

Browser Encryption Speeds

How good are different browsers at number crunching? That question is near and dear to our hearts here at Passpack. Below are the speeds for encrypting and decrypting Passpack data in the browser with AES-256 encryption (all libraries here).

Netscape performs as Firefox or Explorer, depending on the engine.
Mozilla 1.7 performs the same as Firefox.

Operating System: [...]

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