EDIT February 22, 2014: You’ll find the code for the functions mentioned in this post (and related ones) in TECommon Programmers have many options available to them when it comes to error handling. A very common convention among C programmers is to make a function return a non-zero value if an error has occurred. This […]
A user recently brought to my attention that Espionage would notify them that the trial was expiring in 3 days every minute. If you ran into this problem please accept my apologies, it’s certainly not there by design. The download for 1.1.2 has been “silently” updated with a fix for this. If you’re affected by […]
Espionage 1.1.2 is here! It’s first and foremost a huge stability update, but it also boasts 3 new features: NEW: support for encrypting folders over a network mount NEW: ability to run Espionage on multiple user accounts NEW: you can now rename a folder using “Locate Missing Folder…” FIXED: updated ispyd to remove unnecessary logging […]
UPDATE: It turns out that Espionage *is* compatible with Logitech, but only the latest version (2.7 as of this writing). Espionage version 2.1 and later will check for this and will not complain if it detects that you have LCC 2.7 or later installed. We’ve received two reports so far of Espionage starting up but […]
Well, it’s been a week and a day since Espionage was announced to the world. Since then Espionage has been featured all over the web, on sites like lifehacker, Macworld, MacUser, MacNN, The Apple Blog, and others. I feel honored that so many people are as excited about Espionage as I am. I have spent […]
I’m happy to announce the first update to Espionage! Here’s what’s new: FIXED: “Open Helper Log” changed to “Open System Log”. Look for more improvements later. FIXED: Attempts to encrypt ~/foo and ~/foo3 work now (thanks Roger!) FIXED: [_NSStateMarker filePath] error should no longer happen. FIXED: Can no longer uninstall if locked IMPROVED: Won’t let […]
Update (9/20/09): This post is slightly out-of-date now, if you’re looking for instructions on how to use Espionage with Time Machine, the best place to look is in the backup section of its manual. Espionage’s manual is accessible online *and* within Espionage itself. This topic is covered extensively in the Help documentation that comes with […]
See this post if you are interested in licensing iSpy. iSpy is the magic behind Espionage’s amazing capabilities. Despite its sinister sounding name, iSpy has absolutely nothing to do with “spyware” whatsoever. iSpy gets its name from its ability to spy on events in the filesystem. What does that mean? Well, let’s look at how […]
This post comes straight out of Espionage’s built-in help. Before Espionage came onto the scene, it was very difficult to securely protect individual folders. The ability to put a password on a folder wasn’t even possible. Because of Espionage, this has all changed. The typical method of protecting data on Mac OS X has been the […]
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