Security Software Posts from the Old Blog
The following posts were made in the old Thingamablog version of this blog, the read more links will take you directly to them.
Sandboxie — Run Internet Explorer in a Sandbox
Posted on Friday, July 07, 2006 at 8:47 PM by Randall
While I prefer Firefox and Opera to Internet Explorer, there are a few sites that just don’t work with any other browser. Sandboxie lets… [Read More]
Enigmail — Email Encryption for Thunderbird
Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 5:01 PM by Randall
It seems like everyone wants to be able to read your email these days: the company you work for, the government, etc. If you value… [Read More]
ClipSecure — Text Encryption for Real People
Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 9:22 PM by Randall
I remember getting excited about encrypting things was PGP first came out for DOS. Unfortunately, most early (and current, for that matter) programs aren’t really… [Read More]
Scarabay — Portable Password Manager
Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 9:51 PM by Randall
It seems like every web site (and even some programs) want you to have a unique user name and password. Worse, you are expected to… [Read More]
TrueCrypt — Open Source On-the-Fly Encryption
Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 at 10:13 PM by Randall
There are a number of commercial programs that will create an “encypted disk” in a file on your hard drive that you can use like… [Read More]
Eraser?
Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 at 10:20 PM by Randall
Sometimes you really need to get rid of a file completely (so it can’t be “undeleted”) or you need to completely wipe your data off… [Read More]