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Time to give 1Password 4 for Mac’s Security Audit a whirl
by Jeffrey Goldberg Nov 26, 2013
It was bound to happen eventually. A massive Adobe data theft of 130 million customer names, emails, encrypted passwords, source code, and more will enable almost limitless password reuse attacks in the coming weeks.
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SECURITY
1Password and the Crypto Wars
by Jeffrey Goldberg Sep 6, 2013
Of all of the revelations about the NSA that began in June 2013 the one that has shocked me the most is the fact that the United States National Security Agency has been deliberately inserting weaknesses into security products and even into NIST standards. In light of this, it is fit and proper for anyone who relies on 1Password for their security …
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SECURITY
Just in Time Decryption
by Jeffrey Goldberg Aug 14, 2013
1Password only decrypts what you need at the time you need it. If Molly (one of my dogs) is using 1Password to log in to SquirrelsAreEvil.net, only her SquirrelsAreEvil Login details are decrypted. Her RabbitRecipies Login, along with all her other hundreds of items, remain encrypted.
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SECURITY
NSA Prism 1Password Security
by Jeffrey Goldberg Jun 7, 2013
It should come as no surprise that the NSA (United States National Security Agency) has easy access to data that ordinary people store online. Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act (of 2001) and section 702 of FISA (renewed and extended many times over its long history) give the US government the legal authority to gather such data and to keep the fact of …
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NEWS
Understanding Sharing
by Jeffrey Goldberg May 14, 2013
1Password 4.2 for iOS has been released with a really nifty sharing feature. This allows you to conveniently share items with other people and keep them updated. Before getting into the details, it is important to know that the data is well encrypted within 1Password, but it is not encrypted when it is not in 1Password. In other words: share over …
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SECURITY
1Password hashcat strong master passwords
by Jeffrey Goldberg Mar 16, 2013
You may have heard some news going around about hashcat, a password cracking tool, that recently increased its ability to guess Master Passwords for 1Password data files. It’s an impressive achievement for hashcat, and it is important to understand what this does and doesn’t mean for 1Password.
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