Espionage
3.7.1Simple, state-of-the-art encryption and plausible deniability for your data.
Overview
Espionage offers state-of-the-art encryption and plausible deniability for your confidential data.
Sometimes, encrypting your data isn't enough to protect it. That's why Espionage 3 goes beyond data encryption. You can create multiple master passwords, each protecting an isolated set of folders. Every protected folder can also advertise completely different data, depending on whether it's locked or unlocked. Espionage 3 is also the most secure Espionage yet, featuring AES-256 encryption by default, and scrypt to protect your passwords from even the most powerful of adversaries.
Features
- Source code available for security professionals.
- Designed for plausible deniability. Multiple master passwords through Folder Sets. Want two versions of your email? Espionage can handle that.
- Enhances deniable encryption by creating fake Folder Sets and fake disk images.
- Laptop-theft tracking apps (like Undercover) work when using Espionage without FileVault.
- Super-computer defying encryption: AES-256 + scrypt.
- Silent. Espionage 3 doesn't make it easy for people to know what's encrypted.
- Folder Actions make it easy to encrypt your email.
- Quickly access folders via the menu bar and keyboard shortcuts.
- Works with your favorite backup software like Time Machine and Dropbox.
- Optionally prevent folder contents from showing up in Spotlight even when the folder is unlocked.
- High-quality customer support. Yes, given how terrible customer support can be, we consider this a feature.
What's new in Espionage
Fixed:
- Crash during setup on macOS Mojave
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While I can't tell you whether we'll be around in 10 years (just the limitations of not having a crystal ball), I can say that we've been around for 9 years already and have put this software through 3 major versions over that period of time.
To answer your other question, yes, Espionage does manage Apple's sparse disk images for you, and yes it can give you direct access and control over them, so that even if we were to disappear, you would still have access to that data. Just make sure to keep a backup of the database file which contains the encrypted and randomized private keys to each sparsebundle. That file is located in Espionage's application support folder, here:
/Users/[your username]/Library/Application Support/com.taoeffect.Espionage3/database3
You can do that by clicking on the 'i' icon for any folder in the list > click on the Disk Image name > Change disk image location...
Or, you can move the disk image first, and then use that menu to "re-connect" Espionage to it.
If you need any help we're always available at support [at] taoeffect dot com.
So we recommend encrypting something locally first, and then moving the encrypted disk image to the network volume. Yes, ideally it would work flawlessly with no workarounds, but in this case there is nothing we can do short of abandoning sparsebundles (something we are actually looking into for other reasons).
Espionage, like every other app, needs to keep its information somewhere.
So it keeps it in its Application Support folder, as per standard Mac OS X convention.
I am not aware of any way that we can fix this without compromising the privacy of our users. If you have suggestions, please feel free to let us know.
> Hopefully you have a backup somewhere that isn't encrypted but that pretty much defeats the purpose of having this app..
How so?
Kind regards,
Greg, Tao Effect
Your normal users would not know that these files are necessary. They would probably just backup the data file and run into a big surprise when they decide to reformat/reinstall their system without these critical files to recover.
A suggestion would be to start off by educating your users by having a popup or something to remind users to backup these critical files to be able to recover their data.
Kind regards,
Greg, Tao Effect
Also, although the Developer has taken the time to write professional sounding responses to this comment, the responses do come across as defensive and throws the burden of solving the concern back at the OP. I hope the OP gets credit for providing this feedback as I thought it was useful.
If OP isn't exaggerating, it would simply be helpful for solving his (or her) own concern if they can show us what they consider to be effective.
We'll think on it. It's not an easy problem to solve, as the more text we show the less any of it will be payed attention to. We welcome any suggestions/advice on this.
Kind regards,
Greg, Tao Effect
- Present a modal dialog that explains how to backup those files on second launch and at 5-launch intervals repeatedly thereafter until user checks "Don't show again". Have same information available on demand via Help.
We could also use the notifications system, but for now we're leaning on a modal dialog that appears at intervals, is dismissible permanently, and accessible via Help menu.
Feedback welcome either here or on our forums!
They didn't strike me that way at all, and after reading your comment I went back and re-read the replies. While I can see why you may have interpreted them that way, I don't think that's how they were intended.
I think that when they said "Are you aware of an application that does this in a way that you think is good? I cannot think of one, and it would help to see a concrete example and to know what you believe is an example of an app that gets it right," they were seriously asking you to show them another app that does what you think Espionage should do, so they can take a look and see if it's something they may want to implement in future versions.
Since YOU walk on air, it's hard to live up to your standards. ;-)