Comments on: Espionage Brings “Tricksy” Folder Encryption to OS X

By: Lock Folders on Windows

Lock Folders on Windows — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:36:44 +0000

Your program is one of many folder locks for Windows. It cannot be used on a Mac.

By: sensiguard

sensiguard — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:04:07 +0000

nice blog…thanks for sharing.

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password protecting a folder on a hard drive - Mac-Forums.com — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:20:59 +0000

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By: wilko

wilko — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:30:36 +0000

is it possible to simply mount the disc image on a folder location as in linux? this would seem to provide the same functionality, if it works…

By: Tao Effect Blog » Blog Archive » Should unencrypted folder support be removed?

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:59:16 +0000

[...] someone like Alex Payne can misunderstand a review of Espionage that badly, it makes me wonder whether other, less technically savvy people, also [...]

By: macky

macky — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:58:33 +0000

is there anything like this — or better/more recommended for 10.4 ppc users?
thanks

By: File Lock

File Lock — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:07:21 +0000

when it comes to encryption then I would prefer Folder Lock,the best software I ever used.

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Tao Effect Blog » Blog Archive » Thanks For A Great Launch! — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:07:28 +0000

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Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:00:13 +0000

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By: Bob Rudis

Bob Rudis — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:00:10 +0000

@searas without explicitly warning folks to do a Secure Empty Trash it is irresponsible not to do a”srm” on the files vs moving them to the trash.

@Raz re-creating the “expenses” folder caused numerous, false error messages to appear. the interface also did not show the status of locked folders properly. i also had issues with the “hidden” mount points not being found (the “alias” could not be resolved on multiple occasions)

@Alex correction noted. Will try to be more careful :-)

To the folks who are not sure about the advantages, there are many ppl who just want portions of their disk secure either for performance reasons or just because they may have been burned with other solutions. I agree that whole-disk encryption is a much better idea and would prefer to see something like the Travelstar 7K200 or 7K320 http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.9958814a08a37d75797ecae2eac4f0a0/ (if it worked on Macs)

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:08:43 +0000

Cleverly written. For my purposes, I prefer to keep secure data on a drive that is locked down six ways from Sunday, rather than having portions of my HD secured — especially if you need a kext running to secure them anyway. It’s like having a great account password without setting the Open Firmware password.

Also, small correction: sleight of hand.

By: Bored

Bored — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:53:29 +0000

this is pretty cool. very cool how it actually tells you what is going on

By: suresh

suresh — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:27:14 +0000

I dont see many advantages of using this application.

I have been using Disk Utility to save my data on a regular basis

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:07:56 +0000

Try Knox and Excel. I especially like Knox. I nice feature that may be common to all three of these is that Knox uses the FileVault component of OSX and therefore can be opened on any Mac using OSX, whether Knox is installed or not.

For me, the major problem with these small encrypted images is that you have not encrypted your library, where all your mail, etc resides.

Next up- FileVault, when I understand better how it works and work up more nerve.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:36:15 +0000

I dont see the advantage to this application.
I already use encrypted disk images (via Disk Utility) to store my valuables.

By: Juan

Juan — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:33:12 +0000

While not as nice on the UI TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) is available for Mac OS X and provides (IMHO) the best security around along with cross OS compatibility.