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I recently found a new password manager and, eager as ever to waste more hours rather than doing something truly productive — say, housework — I have just downloaded and installed it.
As the manufacturers, Vortex, say,
How many different passwords and usernames do you need to remember? Many of us try and use the same select few for most of our daily lives, but often sites have such different login requirements that we need to deviate from our favorite password or username choices. Rather than writing them down on a piece of paper and storing them under your keyboard, we have created a nice little application that is simple to use and keeps your data protected from others. Use it for anything you want to keep secure, including passwords, usernames, and even credit-card PIN info with complete confidence that you have a highly encrypted storage mechanism that contains no backdoors, spyware, advertising, or anything else bizarre. We wanted a password tool we could trust, so we built one.
Asked why they are giving it away free, they reply:
Well, we figure that a lot of businesses are dealing with this issue on a daily basis. So, we hope that they get sick of looking at our name and logo each time they use this tool and break-down and purchase a branded version. If you are in that category, send us an email and we can get rolling on your branded password tool.
The branded version costs US$500 for the rights to brand in your own company’s name; if you decide to sell it at a price, any profit you make is yours.
Mind you, I have been having some nice success in keeping everything accessible yet hidden by using OneNote‘s encryption tool, which encrypts sections and ‘times out’ encrypted pages once they are open so that should you leave your laptop for a few minutes Secret Squirrel can’t sit down and help himself.
I also picked up the free Windows Notebook encrypter from Steganos, LockNote, which is also fine and dandy — and being a pure txt file very easy to transport around. One password to rule them all…
If Vortex is any good I’ll let you know…
