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ScriptNo. Password Manager, Form Filler, Password Management. TrueCrypt. Disconnect. Ghostery. GRC. Off The Grid     The grid above contains a highly random arrangement of characters,but with very special properties.

Off The Grid    

It can be used to encryptwebsite domain names into secure passwords. Why is this useful? This “Off The Grid” technology is the only known system to providesecure encryption using nothing but a specially designed piece of paper. Although this system initially uses software to design and print the grid, no technology of any kind is used to perform the encryption. Every other strong and modern encryption technology relies upon software running in your computer, your browser, your phone, or some other device to encrypt, decrypt, or store your passwords. “Off The Grid” converts any website's name into a secure password that you never need to write down, store, or remember because you can easily re-create the same secure password from the same website name the next time, and every time, you need it.

Even though we can no longer live “offthe grid” . . . at least our passwords can! Create & Print Your Customized Encryption Grid. Creating & Printing Your Personal Encryption Grid Although the grid generation and formatting controls above are straightforward, the guidance provided below may be useful: Printing with Google's Chrome Browser is Broken! (Because it won't print background colors!) Google Chrome browser users will need to use some other (any other) web browser to print their OTG grids. Under Chrome, the OTG grids display beautifully. For reasons that none of the hundreds of people posting and voting in open Google forums can understand, even though Google's Chrome browser is (at the time of this writing) at version 15, it remains unable to print web page background colors.

ShieldsUP! Your Internet connection's IP address is uniquely associated with the following "machine name": The string of text above is known as your Internet connection's "reverse DNS.

ShieldsUP!

" The end of the string is probably a domain name related to your ISP. This will be common to all customers of this ISP. But the beginning of the string uniquely identifies your Internet connection. The question is: Is the beginning of the string an "account ID" that is uniquely and permanently tied to you, or is it merely related to your current public IP address and thus subject to change? The concern is that any web site can easily retrieve this unique "machine name" (just as we have) whenever you visit. If the machine name shown above is only a version of the IP address, then there is less cause for concern because the name will change as, when, and if your Internet IP changes.

There is no standard governing the format of these machine names, so this is not something we can automatically determine for you.