Publisher's Description
From Tao Effect:
Espionage is a revolutionary application that aims to replace FileVault. Espionage is the only software that will let you encrypt individual folders and interact with them straight from the Finder. No longer is it necessary to encrypt your entire home folder just to protect your email, or chat histories. Encrypting data unnecessarily slows your computer down, and for laptop users, can be a drain on battery life. Espionage solves this problem by letting you encrypt only what you want, and it does it while integrating directly with the Finder. Just double-click on a folder and enter your password at the prompt to unlock. Right-click on it to re-lock. Folder encryption has never been this easy before. And for users who just want to put a password on unimportant data without securely encrypting it, such as a folder full of hundreds of videos that they don't want their grandparents to see, Espionage has them covered. While securely encrypting folders is its chief purpose, Espionage can put a password on any folder in a flash without touching its contents.
What's new in this version:
- FIXED: removed "failed to get node path" console messages in ispyd.log on Lion
- FIXED: issue with application associations on Lion
- IMPROVED: removed some 10.5 dependencies. recompiled with llvm-gcc.
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"Disappointed"
Version: Espionage 2.8.12
Pros
Works well with folders on the computer.
Cons
I wanted a product that would encrypt data on a flash drive. Espionage encrypted and locked the folder on the flash drive but now it will not unlock the folder.
Summary
Does not work well for folders on a flash drive. I contacted support and they outlined what I needed to do to unlock the folder. Their suggestion did not work. Now, I feel that I cannot trust Espionage to encrypt data on a flash drive. I am very disappointed that Espionage will not work for protecting flash drive data.
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"Easy to use"
Version: Espionage 2.8.2
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Though the inner workings of this program are a bit hard to grasp, the nice thing is you don't have to. Once you learn the basics of the interface, it's easy to move folders in and out of encryption, and in the case of encrypting program files (like Mail), Espionage figures it out for you. In six months of using it, I've only had minor glitches and nothing that critically threatens loss of data. The documentation and help are very thorough, as is the developer. And really, you can't lose by trying the demo, which gives a generous amount of time to check it out. -
"Does exactly what it says it does,."
Version: Espionage 2.7.1
Pros
Exceptionally easy to set-up and use.
Cons
None that I've come across yet after 45 days of use.
Summary
Menu icon makes it very easy to lock and unlock a folder. Did I say that it was easy to install? Well it was!
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"Easy and secure"
Version: Espionage 2.6.1
Pros
It fills a niche very well. Easy to use.
Cons
Nothing bad.
Summary
Outstanding
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"It's okay but..."
Version: Espionage 1.1
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I tried this program out and it does do what it claims to do but I just don't particularly like how it goes about it. It actually creates sparse encrypted disk images of your folders and puts them in the /Volumes share point. Some of the image files can be quite a bit bigger than the original folders, even though the are sparse image files. For example. I encrypted a folder that was 2,256,092 bytes in size and the sparse image file was 20,040,920 bytes long. Then I encrypted and even smaller folder which was 733,275 bytes long and the sparse image files was 17,952,768 bytes long. That's WAY too much space being used, in my opinion. Other than that, it did work okay and I like the feature that allows a folder to be decrypted at logon. It's worth trying out the product for it's demo length to see if you like it.
The uninstaller removes all files and restores your unencrypted folders when it's done. At no time did the program hurt any of my files nor keep me from accessing them. I'm just not particularly found of the file sizes and mount point issue.
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