The changes below have been updated to include those of 2.8.7. Espionage 2.8.6 is finally out, and it’s highly recommended as it fixes many important issues and adds plenty of polish: IMPROVED: Intelligence of application templates w.r.t. dependencies and more IMPROVED: “Choose Password” changes to “Password Required” when re-adding an encrypted folder to Espionage IMPROVED: […]
The changes below have been updated to include those of 2.8.5. Espionage 2.8.4 is out! Here are the changes: IMPROVED: SyncServices folder is now encrypted for many apps. Espionage tries to make sure it remains unlocked IMPROVED: The ‘Lock On Quit’ option is now per-folder instead of per-application IMPROVED: Relationship between ‘autounlock at login’ and […]
Espionage 2.8.3 is a minor point update with some significant changes: NEW: Converted EspionageHelper to launchd agent, resulting in improvements to: Improved security for non-enrypted folders (which are still obviously insecure) Removes startup errors associated with Apple’s buggy Login Items code Crash recovery NEW: iPhoto application template IMPROVED: Notification regarding moving or renaming unlocked encrypted […]
We’ve been working hard to make Espionage even easier to use, and with 2.8 we think we made a little bit of a breakthrough in usability when it comes to moving and renaming folders. We call this new feature SmartMove. That isn’t the only change in 2.8 though, here’s the complete list: NEW: SmartMove – […]
The changes below include the changes for 2.7.1 and are marked as such. We’re pleased to announce the release of Espionage 2.7, as usual, here’s the complete list of changes, followed by some of the key improvements: NEW: Espionage can now import sparseimages and sparsebundles, converting them to folders. NEW: Espionage now prevents the symlink […]
February 9, 2014: Delayed Launcher is now Open Source Software! And you thought I’d abandoned it. 😛 DelayedLauncher turned out to be more popular than I expected it to be. Originally released as a solution to a problem in the 1.x series of Espionage, DelayedLauncher turned out to be useful for many people as a […]
Espionage 2.6 has arrived, and here’s the full list of changes: NEW: Redesigned and improved password prompts NEW: “Lock Folder” contextual item is back for 10.6 (*Only visible after restart!*) NEW: Daylite application template NEW: Added Rocketbox support to Mail application template IMPROVED: Behavior when registering with improperly named license IMPROVED: Relationship with the TEDiagnosticTool […]
Espionage 2.5.4 contains minor bug fixes, user interface improvements, and a compatibility fix when using Little Snitch’s Configuration utility: IMPROVED: When adding a folder to Espionage, “passwords do not match” is not displayed until second password is entered. IMPROVED: Wording of documentation on how to re-import (aka restore) backed up or lost encrypted folders. IMPROVED: […]
Thanks go out to Dirk for emailing us today and letting us know of a security issue whereby a folder’s password could be logged to the system log in a certain error scenario (not cool!). The issue itself is due to a typo in the code that was introduced in 2.5, versions prior to that […]
Espionage 2.5.2 is primarily a bugfix release, but continues to add some polishing touches: NEW: Added an intelligent fail-safe into Espionage to help users whose Finder settings cause the password prompt to appear frequently. NEW: Documentation in troubleshooting section on what to check if the Finder causes the password prompt to appear too frequently. IMPROVED: […]