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SECURITY
Your Master Password is your defense from Dropbox breaches, real and imagined
by Jeffrey Goldberg Jan 12, 2014
Rumors of a Dropbox data breach spread this weekend, a breach that ultimately turned out to be false. But even in instances of false alarms, it is useful to remind 1Password users that their 1Password data cannot be decrypted without the Master Password. So let me take this opportunity to remind everyone that your 1Password data cannot be decrypted …
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IOS
The NSA can do what to my iPhone?
by Jeffrey Goldberg Dec 31, 2013
After Der Spiegel, along with Jakob Appelbaum at the 30th meeting of the Chaos Computer Club, published an astonishing trove of documents revealing a great deal of the extent of their penetration of the network and capabilities to install spying mechanisms into individuals’ computers and devices, one of the least significant documents is getting …
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SECURITY
MAC
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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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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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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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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