Friday Fun With Steganography
Herodotus wrote the Histories, which is widely consider the first work of written history, where he covered, among other things, the wars...
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Charles Edge
- Apr 12
- 4 min
A Digital Legacy Contact
My mom passed away a few years ago. She left behind a spreadsheet with all of her passwords, banking information, and other assets. It...
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Charles Edge
- Apr 12
- 4 min
The Evolution And Future Of Credential Management
The first password manager software designed to securely store passwords was called Password Safe. It was created by security expert...
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Charles Edge
- Apr 10
- 6 min
Avoiding Phishing, Spearphishing, and Catfishing Scams
I get a text, call, or Facebook message almost daily from some odd party, asking how I'm doing, or even being brazen enough to kick off...
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Charles Edge
- Apr 2
- 2 min
Communicating Some Design Decisions
One of our goals (and we hope an expectation our customers have) is to be secure by design. One of the hardest things in security is to...
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Charles Edge
- Mar 23
- 5 min
The Evolution Of Passwords And How Secret Chest Tries To Make It Better
The concept of passwords emerged in the 1960s with the rise of multi-user computer systems. These early passwords were often short,...
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Charles Edge
- Mar 13
- 28 min
A Deeper Dive Into Augmented Reality Graphics (And How We Got Here)
We've been hard at work building out support for a more native experience with Vision Pro for Secret Chest. Along the way I realized how...
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Charles Edge
- Mar 12
- 4 min
Using Jupyter Notebooks with Core ML
There are a lot of data scientists and machine learning engineers out there doing amazing work. Any time we tend to think of a thing we'd...
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Charles Edge
- Mar 11
- 2 min
Secret Chest for MSPs && MSSPs
One aspect of Secret Chest we planned from day one was to support Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers...
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Charles Edge
- Mar 8
- 2 min
Use Apple Watch With Secret Chest
Secret Chest supports using an Apple Watch as a second factor for authentication. We have two bodies of work planned, of which the first...
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Charles Edge
- Mar 5
- 5 min
Tips for Building a “Continuous Discovery” UX Research Practice
UX research, short for user experience research, is the methodical study of users and their interactions with a product or service. Its...
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Charles Edge
- Feb 20
- 11 min
A Troubleshooting Guide For Apple's Vision Pro
We've been hard at work getting Secret Chest to suppor the new Apple Vision Pro. It works but the experience could be better (e.g. some...
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Charles Edge
- Feb 18
- 9 min
A Somewhat Snarky Guide To Mac Maintenance
Keeping a Mac healthy and running smoothly isn't just about fixing problems; it's about preventing them in the first place. Here are some...
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Charles Edge
- Feb 14
- 14 min
Secret Chest, Vision Pro, and Some Tips for Others
Apple's Vision Pro is the latest in a long, long line of making new technology usable for the masses. It’s in Apple’s DNA - from...
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Charles Edge
- Feb 11
- 5 min
Jenkins, AWS, && Xcode
We talked about getting into DevOps as a career change in our previous article. But let's talk about some of the tools we use to automate...
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Charles Edge
- Feb 9
- 4 min
From Support to DevOps: A Guide to Finding and Interviewing for DevOps Roles
I’ve known a lot of people who transitioned from general Apple support gigs to fields like information security, software development,...
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Charles Edge
- Feb 8
- 4 min
The EU AI Act && Challenges Governing AI
The European Union (EU) is poised to make history with its groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence Act, the first comprehensive legal...
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Charles Edge
- Feb 7
- 2 min
The Name "Secret Chest"
The concept for Secret Chest came out of an interview with some of the creators of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) back in the 1970s,...
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Charles Edge
- Feb 6
- 6 min
Human-Device Symbiosis, Vision Pro, && The Secure Enclave
J.C.R. Licklider, known as "Lick" to his contemporaries is a titan in the history of technology (one of my favorite topics). Though his...
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Charles Edge
- Feb 6
- 7 min
Apple, the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA)
Concerned about a handful of “tech giants” who are often referred to as "gatekeepers" that control vast swathes of online activity, the...
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