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Offline GMail: Is it secure?

January 29, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Google Gears LogoGmail finally provided “offline” mode via Google Gears. So when Gears is enabled you can access your Gmail from your browser any time… even when you’re not online! Ok so that’s cool… but where does it store the data and is the data secure?

When a website attempts to interact with a gears datastore it uses uses the same origin policy as its underlying security model. In a nutshell, the policy permits scripts running on pages originating from the same site to access each other’s methods and properties with no specific restrictions — but prevents access to most methods and properties across pages on different sites. This means that a web page with a particular scheme, host, and port can only access resources with the same scheme, host, and port.

This means a site using Gears:

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  • Database: Can only open databases created for that site’s origin.
  • LocalServer: Can only capture URLs and use manifests from the site’s origin.

The data is stored locally using a SQLite database. The downer is that your data within this database is NOT encrypted. Gears data files are protected with the user’s operating system login credentials. Users with separate login names cannot access each other’s Gears data files… but this is only enforced by the operating system.

If two users are sharing the same login to the operating system they could theoretically access each other’s Gears data files, just as they could access any other file on the machine.

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Filed Under: GMail, Google, iGoogle, Privacy, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: gmail, google, google gears, how, Privacy

Portable antivirus, defeat net access blocks, surf anonymously – even from an iPod

March 17, 2008 by Paul Spoerry 4 Comments

The DemocraKey was created in May of 2006. Within two days, over 60,000 people had read about the DemocraKey and built their own. It was featured on MSN, Digg, Lifehacker, and hundreds of other pages. Now, it’s entering version 2.0, where it becomes a complete, portable privacy suite. DemocraKey helps scan and surf securely from computer to computer. You can install it on a portable thumbdrive and now even on an iPod. Visit a friends house, surf from a kiosk, or just need some privacy? Pop it in and off you go. DemocraKey has built in TOR support in the browser, which can hide your internet activity. Sounds sweet, portable too!

Features

  • Protect your computer from viruses with a security enhanced version of Firefox
  • Visit sites that are blocked by your school/employer/government
  • Hide your internet actions with Tor
  • Encrypt personal emails with GPG
  • Scan your computer with portable built in Antivirus software
  • Runs from any portable media – iPod, USB key, Digital Camera…
  • It’s FREE and Open Source!

Get DemocraKey!

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Filed Under: Privacy, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: open source, Privacy

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