Passpack

There are a lot of USB drives aimed at improving login security. The Yubikey is my favorite. It is compact and smart, and now you can use it to sign in Passpack. Tara met Stina Ehrensvärd, CEO & Founder of Yubico, during Red Herring’s ETRE 2008, in Stockolm. I...

While Americans were feasting on turkey and stuffing yesterday*, Francesco was back in Italy putting the final touches on the next release: Two Factor Authentication. This is a first roll-out using a one time code which will be sent to you via email during sign in to your Passpack account...

Today I discovered a strange issue with our ticket system. In the last two months, it randomly marked some tickets as “closed”. So we didn’t answer them because we didn’t know of them. I had ...

As you probably know, two days ago a user alerted us about an issue with the access via Google/Gmail procedure. We temporarily sidestepped the problem avoiding the creation of new accounts via Google/Gmail, and immediately after this, started to work on the support of Google Friend Connect...

This morning a smart user alerted me about a security issue in using Google/Gmail to access to the Passpack account. I analyzed it and I discovered that Google has changed how Gmail authentication works, causing the library we use to fail...

Updating servers for the next 20 minutes. Service may be spotty or read only. If you can’t save changes, wait and try again later. UPDATE: Complete. Thanks for your patience!

Just a quick notice.We just ran a migration on a few of our servers. The updates are now complete, all went well. Due to some DNS issues, you may temporarily be redirected to https://www2.passpack.com (notice the 2) we just wanted to let you know that this is OK...

Happy Autumn! We sweat our way through the end-of summer heat and just rolled out a series of little fixes, features and tricks. More Auto-login Improvements We’ve managed to nearly complete the browsers compatibility list. ...

The Auto-login 2.0 release is going well so far. But we’ve found some special cases when you might prefer version 1.0. So we have added the option to switch between versions. When Would This Be Useful? First case. The new Passpack It! button works well on Firefox 3+. ...

Passpack It! button tip: if you can’t train a site, double-click your button and use the Feedback tab. It’ll be queued for fixing.

We’ve added uber-improved 1 Click Login performance. Plus double click to get a full service pop-up menu: train websites, send feedback, copy/paste and… (we really like this one) … add an entry to your Passpack account directly from any website. If...

As you all know, Passpack has a suggestions box (you do know that right?) where you can vote up the most requested features, or send us your own ideas...

Ok folks, as promised, it’s almost here. And, as always, we’re letting some lucky people get a sneak peek in exchange for running it through the wringer for us. Get on the tester’s list – email Tara.

Google Chrome is quickly becoming a favorite browser among Passpack users. Even I’ve switched – it’s just sooo much faster. However, the latest dev build of Chrome will not work with Passpack. But that’s ok. Not Ju...