{"id":418,"date":"2006-07-19T08:52:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T12:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/?p=418"},"modified":"2006-07-19T08:52:51","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T12:52:51","slug":"microsoft-kills-off-my-private-folder-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/19\/microsoft-kills-off-my-private-folder-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Kills Off &#8216;My Private Folder&#8217; App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,1895,1989425,00.asp\">Microsoft Kills Off &#8216;My Private Folder&#8217; App<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsoft quietly added the free encryption utility earlier this month, and then just as quietly deleted it. The utility allowed users to encrypt and store files inside a private folder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I first saw this product I thought it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/\">TrueCrypt<\/a> me-too product without the documentation. The nice thing is that it got the blessing of Microsoft. Besides the blessing from Microsoft I could not think of a reason for me to switch from TrueCrypt to &#8216;My Private Folder&#8217;. In a way I am sorry to see it go. There is a serious security\/identity theft issue with laptops that encrypted virtual disks\/folders can reduce.<a href=\"http:\/\/ophcrack.sourceforge.net\/\"> Ophcrack<\/a> shows how easy it is to crack operating system passwords so a pragmatic person has to assume that the operating system passwords will be compromised fairly quickly. Encrypting sensitive data without using the operating system passwords becomes a step improvement in security. Using TrueCrypt is not the perfect answer but it is better than no security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Kills Off &#8216;My Private Folder&#8217; App Microsoft quietly added the free encryption utility earlier this month, and then just as quietly deleted it. The utility allowed users to encrypt and store files inside a private folder. When I first saw this product I thought it was a TrueCrypt me-too product without the documentation. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/19\/microsoft-kills-off-my-private-folder-app\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Kills Off &#8216;My Private Folder&#8217; App&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-sbs2k-sbs2k3"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iN3d-6K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}