Before starting, I want to thank my wife and son for their frequent weekend sacrifices over the past year. They literally made KEYBOX possible. I’d also want to thank the reviewers at Apple if for no other reason than their job is a thankless one.
What is KEYBOX?
Privacy is a topic near and dear to me. I wrote the original version of KEYBOX to scratch a personal itch back in 2005.
My apartment was broken into and many of my and my wife’s belonging were stolen, even using our bags to haul it all away. Worse of all the thief left us a note showing off how proud he was. This was not our home anymore and everything we thought was private was no longer. Only after becoming victims did we start to invest in dimple keys and other preventative measures.
For myself, it didn’t stop there. I was compelled to take my privacy very seriously from that moment onward. The original version of KEYBOX was the culmination of careful design and development to address this.
2009 and 2010 were years that presented challenges to protecting people’s privacy. I wrote KEYBOX for the iPhone in response to this changing lanscape.
I don’t believe privacy is a dying concept as Mark Zuckerberg would have us believe. Privacy has never been more important. As we move more of our lives onto the cloud we open ourselves to more security risks. Who we are and what we do is no longer tucked away safely in a drawer in our homes. It’s now sitting on a 24h accessible server on the Internet and we are no longer in full control of our privacy.
How KEYBOX works and what distinguishes it from alternatives is a bit too much for this post. I’ll be discussing the design, development, marketing decisions behind KEYBOX and where the app is going in the future in future posts.
If you are serious about security and your own privacy you can learn more here… http://www.jayfuerstenberg.com/keybox/