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 [...]
In Passpack support we sometimes get the same question over and over, so I figured I’d write a post about some known common issues. But I AM Logged In! Do you ever get this error message when you try to Autologin to a website? “To use the Passpack It! button, you must connect to this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We have linked to a few of the common threats OpenID poses and will talk more about them in the future. Now, I’d like to address one in particular, which has inspired this post and brought up a very important issue regarding Passpack’s support of OpenID. Let’s have a look at the problem… Here’s What [...]
Passpack’s recent announcement of soon becoming an OpenID supporter sparked quite a few questions. One of those questions in particular requires a post to be answered – “How will Passpack support OpenID and at the same time prevent phishing?” Passpack has always dedicated itself to ensuring full user security and privacy and it always will. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When I first heard about Marco Barulli’s idea for a “Zero-Knowledge Web Application” I was happy. I felt I had found someone who thought the same way I do, with which we could collaborate, and I told him so. But when I read the first definition, I was less impressed. I tried to open a [...]
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 [...]
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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