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alexbakker

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    You're right, it's been a while, but we actually issued a beta release for 2.1 today!

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    There's a third option to switch from Google Authenticator to Aegis. You can simply scan those export QR codes of Google Authenticator with Aegis.

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    Comment #33439962

    Aegis is fully offline and doesn't have an official desktop application. You could of course create an export of your Aegis vault and import it in a third-party desktop application…

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    Comment #33439916

    It's just a group name for the two guys working on it. Source: I'm one of them (Hi!)

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    This is amazing work! I was surprised to see that the reward was set at 10k initially. Granted, it was bumped to 75k later, but even that seems on the low side considering the degr…

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    Comment #32168843

    I'm seeing this as well. While the amount of traffic has certainly decreased compared to the first couple of days after the CVE was announced, https://log4shell.tools is still bein…

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    Glad to hear you like it!

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    > android.permission.INTERNET is frankly hilarious since that permission no longer does anything (every app has access to the internet). This is incorrect. If an app doesn't specif…

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    Comment #30116633

    It sucks to see your open source work being abused like this, and there's seemingly nothing we can do about it. Every now and then I scour the play store to see if I can find any A…

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    Comment #29583175

    You're right, but this has always been the trade off with tools like this. You put some trust in the tool's authors and gain some insight in return. Remember the services that test…

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    I can't say I'm feeling the same. Still lots of people testing over at https://log4shell.tools almost a week after this vulnerability became widely known. Plenty of people still di…

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    Comment #29567092

    You're welcome! I'm glad you find it useful.

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    Comment #29563065

    I have a feeling this vulnerability is going to be with us for years. Shameless plug: I built a tool that assists in detecting whether you're vulnerable to this or the previous CVE…

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    Comment #25809317

    If you write down the secrets and the other parameters on paper, that would suffice as a backup as well. I'd recommend using Aegis' encrypted backup though.

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    One of the authors here. We've gotten a lot of similar feedback lately. This is something we plan on addressing in a future release by introducing filter chips, either directly on …

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    One of the authors here. Yes! Aegis can scan the QR codes that Google Authenticator presents in the "Transfer accounts" screen. It's also possible to import directly from Google Au…

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    One of the authors here. Recent versions of Aegis also come with an automatic backup feature, so that an export is created at a location of your choosing automatically every time a…

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    Thanks for your support! That's a fair point. We'll see what the feedback is like when we release initial support for icons packs and decide whether to include a pack out of the bo…

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    One of the authors here. Unfortunately, Google Drive and Dropbox only partially participate in Android's Storage Access Framework. In Aegis, exporting only requires the creation of…