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The new Adobe AIR damages the Passpack Desktop’s Local Storage

Your attention, please.

The new Adobe AIR, on some Operating Systems, resets the Encrypted Local Storage where the local Passpack Desktop data are stored. So, please, before upgrading to the new Adobe AIR, do a backup of your local data from “tools > backup” so that, if the data will be lost after the upgrading, you can restore it.

If your data is lost, the only way to recover it is to restore the status of your operating system to a restore point before the upgrade to the last Adobe AIR. Some users were able to recover all the data this way. After recovering the data, please, backup the entries before upgrade again and restore the entries after restarting the account.

Passpack Beta 4 Public Preview is Online

The Preview is over – Try the Real Thing here Thanks to everyone for your patience and feedback – priceless! A special thanks to our Beta 4 testers.

Working Around the Clock (and IE6)

The two items which held up the Beta 4 Public Preview last Wednesday were the Anti-phishing Welcome Message and some visualization bugs with Internet Explorer. Just a quick update: the first has been solved, and the later is at a good point.

Italian Press Coverage

Italian journalist Emanuele Quintarelli‘s interview of Nicola Mattina appeared in the popular Italian webzine Apogeo online.

Standardized Password Policy?

I came across an interesting article/rant this morning. At first I thought it was the usual “I hate the password policy”, but the post brought up an interesting point.

Ask and You Shall Receive

UPDATE: The Beta 4 release is online. Read the complete features list here. Or Sign up for Passpack and get started.

Development Update

First, a huge THANK YOU to all those who found time in their busy schedules to test out the new Passpack and give us your feedback. You brought up some very interesting points – invaluable, I’d say. Here’s what we heard:

Anti-Phishing Welcome Message

Passpack defined an anti-phishing mechanism which allows you (yes you) make sure you are connected to Passpack, and not to a malicious copycat website.

Don’t click “Lost Password”

“E-mail sent over the Internet is more like paper mail on a postcard than mail in a sealed envelope. [...] Hackers can read and/or forge e-mail. Government agencies eavesdrop on private communications.” – From Introduction to PGP

Keep Track of Passpack

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Something’s stirring at Passpack

First the obvious news… The blog got a slight restyling today – I can finally check that off the to-do list now. Please do let us know if you come across anything quirky looking. Thanks.

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