Is anyone using the software called Pastor? It's a cool, free application
for keeping track of all your login and password information. I'd like to
use it, but now I'm getting paranoid: writing such an app sounds like a
perfect scam - it can collect people's login info and then upload it to the
owner's computer. Voila - access to lots of people's most critical stuff!
Does anyone know anything about this program in particular (safe or not), or
have a pointer to a similar app which is known to be safe (source code
available or something like that)? Any thoughts would be greatly
appreciated!


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Mike Levin
mlevin77@comcast.net

Michael Levin <mlevin77@comcast.net> wrote:

> Is anyone using the software called Pastor? It's a cool, free application
> for keeping track of all your login and password information. I'd like to
> use it, but now I'm getting paranoid: writing such an app sounds like a
> perfect scam - it can collect people's login info and then upload it to the
> owner's computer. Voila - access to lots of people's most critical stuff!
> Does anyone know anything about this program in particular (safe or not), or
> have a pointer to a similar app which is known to be safe (source code
> available or something like that)? Any thoughts would be greatly
> appreciated!

If you're paranoid about this (no reason not to be), use LittleSnitch to
block any such outgoing traffic. m.

PS I use Web Confidential for the purpose you describe.


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