After looking for an encryption tool to properly secure Dropbox and Evernote I decided to take Tao Effect’s Espionage encryption tool for a spin. After about 30 seconds of use, I can strongly suggest that you do not use it. I had read on their blog that it was problematic to use Evernote and/or Dropbox with Espionage, which I thought a shame, since that’s my main goal. Nonetheless, I decided to try it out. Upon installation I discovered, to my mistaken delight, that it included an “application framework” for Evernote, and even Chrome (but not Dropbox)! I turned on both and then the fun began. Nearly instantly Evernote crashed hard, complaining about a database error. Then, trying to back out my encryption of the Evernote database Espionage went into a CPU lock (spinning beach ball), not stopping until I force-quit the application. Finally, after a restart of my machine I was able to get back in to Espionage and undo its disastrous work. It’s a near miracle that I didn’t lose all my data.

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