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Splashtop: Instant-on Linux OS on the motherboard

ASUS just announced that some of their top motherboard will feature “Express Gate”, actually a different name for Splashtop.
And boy, Splashtop is cool. Splashtop is a full Linux OS environment, pre-set with browser, email, Skype and other Internet applications which you can start using immediately after turning your machine on. There’s practically no booting as [...]

Yoggie announces Gatekeeper Card Pro

If you’ve been following this blog for some time, you know I’m working at Yoggie, a great company with great products.
As I’ve written before, Yoggie’s Gatekeeper Pico is essentially a USB-sized miniature computer running Linux and a full Internet security suite, so you just stick it into the USB port of a Windows machine and [...]

TrueCrypt 5.0 Released

TrueCrypt is one of the must-have free Open-Source applications in my list. It is a Disk Encryption software you use for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device).
It’s really one of the most celebrated Open-Source applications, as it’s well engineered, simple to understand, simple to use and actually answers a very concrete need [...]

World’s first USB-sized personal hardware firewall

Earlier this month Yoggie Security System (Yes, I work there :-)) launched the Firestick Pico.
Firestick Pico is very exciting since it’s the word’s first, and so far only, USB-sized personal hardware firewall!
This is an extremely exciting product. Personally I think the concept itself is a revolution in the security market.
Think about it: Although [...]