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What's a VaultletSuite?
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What's in the VaultletSuite?
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What's so special about the VaultletSuite?
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What the heck does from just about anywhere (FJAA) mean?
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What's it going to cost me?
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I see you're pursuing patents for some of the technology used in the VaultletSuite. Aren't software patents, and the system by which they are granted, evil?
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Why are you doing this?
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Any thing else you'd like to say that we might have forgotten to ask?
Q: What's a VaultletSuite?
A: The VaultletSuite is a collection of cutting-edge encryption solutions designed to establish and protect
your privacy and peace of mind, both on and offline.
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Q: What's in the VaultletSuite?
A: The VaultletSoft™ contains the following services:
VaultletMail®: secure, spam-free email, from just about anywhere (FJAA)
PasswordValet™: a secure way to store, edit and access all the accounts, passwords and other
important information in your life, FJAA*
VaultletFiler®: a simple way to securely store and access your most important files, FJAA*
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Q: What's so special about the VaultletSuite?
A: The VaultletSuite is superior to what's currently available in the free/commercial market because:
It solves problems that other software doesn't solve well, or solve at all: some of what we do is truly novel, while the
rest is an improvement over what's currently available in the free/commercial market.
It distinguishes between convenience and security and allows users to choose which concept they value most: almost all software has implicit assumptions about security and
convenience hard coded into it. In the case of the VaultletSuite, the tradeoffs between these two often mutually exclusive concepts are clearly
explained and users are encouraged to make informed decisions concerning how their personal information is handled by the VaultletSuite.
It's based upon Open Source™ and freely available, fully documented software: the end result? Open source
promotes software reliability and quality by supporting independent peer review and rapid evolution of source code
(thanks to opensource.org for the blurb)
We use what we create: simply put, our software has to be good enough for our personal use before we would ever consider
offering it to you, for sale or for free.
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Q: What the heck does from just about anywhere (FJAA) mean?
A: Sounds like major league hand waving, doesn't it? To start with, we're building our services for any modern OS that supports recent Java Runtimes and sports a relatively new, pseudo-standards compliant browser.
That translates roughly to Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OSX 10.3.x and 10.4.x, Linux and Solaris. In terms of browsers, that means the newer versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, FireFox, Opera and Safari.
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Q: What's it going to cost me?
A: We're going to offer some the basic VaultletSuite services for free, while more business oriented solutions (or those that are expensive for us to
implement) will be subscription based. Go here for details. Non profits, NGOs, the Press and educational institutions will also be able to use the VaultletSuite for free.
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Q: I see you're pursuing patents for some of the technology used in the VaultletSuite. Aren't software patents, and the system by which
they are granted, evil?
A: Evil? No. Abused and in need of serious
reform? Most assuredly. What VaultletSoft does isn't a hobby and takes time to develop, test, distribute and support.
As we're swimming in murky, shark infested waters where the meme of our era seems to be "competition through litigation" (as opposed to competition
through innovation), the patents we seek are defensive. We need
a leg to stand on in case one of our competitors decides to attempt to distract us from what we're here to do: create quality software that makes it easy for you to
protect and control your valuable information.
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Q: Why are you doing this?
A: With the advent and widespread adoption of the internet for many of our daily communication needs, the line between
what we consider public and personal information seems to have been blurred or blown away, depending upon how you view these things.
We've decided that we want to help reestablish those boundaries. Beyond that, we like the idea of doing something both useful and
challenging for a living.
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Q: Any thing else you'd like to say that we might have forgotten to ask?
A: I though you'd never ask: Your bytes are your business. Our business is keeping it that way™
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To be continued...
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