SafePad – A Safe Haven for Stuff You Don’t Want People to See

This is a freeware pick – and it works with all known Windows versions. EB might have an unknown Windows version, so I don’t know about her. Just you never mind!

After harping and harping for years about why you need a good password manager like LastPass . We realize our words are falling upon deaf eyes and unseeing eyes. Some of you simply refuse to accept the fact that you need a password manager. So when we stumbled on SafePad we knew it would be great for those whose animus toward password managers keeps them from using one. And for those who have heeded our plea and installed a password manager, kudos! You’ll find this program may be useful to you as well.

With SafePad, you can store all your logins and passwords and save them right on your computer – all cozy and encrypted and password protected. With SafePad, you can keep your credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and messages to secret paramours secret – away from the prying eyes of EB and others who derive pleasure from spying on the unsuspecting.

For example: Let’s say I want to write a note and vent my anger and frustrations. I don’t want anyone to read it, and I might want to vent more and add to it later – SafePad can to that. Or say I have credit card numbers and bank account numbers I want to keep safe, encrypted and password protected – SafePad can do that to. Or let’s say you had phone numbers of concubines or gigolos — depending on your leanings – and you wanted to keep them safe from prying eyes. You guessed it. SafePad can do that too.

I can think of dozens of things you could use SafePad for – and did I mention it has a password generator too.

I mean this could be a really valuable too for those of you who simply hate password managers and who want to keep a list of site log-ins and passwords, or other secret stuff, safe on your own PC.

SafePad is limited only by your imagination, I tells ya!

And see? We actually do test this stuff! Really!

Please don’t pick apart my spelling and grammar errors – the above is an image and I’m not going back and correcting the error (s) and taking a new screen shot. Sorry. You get the idea! I can write anything I want and I know as long as my passwords are strong enough, even EB with her harrowing password crackers can’t break into my files!

And with its built-in password generator, I can easily generate passwords to foil EB’s intrepid attempts to steal my secrets and get the low-down on what I’m really think. Let her eat cake, I say!

But what would a freeware pick be without introducing the developer and letting him ramble on a bit about his/her program right? Have no fear, the developer is here to lay upon you some information about his freeware program, SafePad. Take it away!

What is SafePad

SafePad is a simple FREE text editor that lets you encrypt your documents using the industry standard FIPS Compliant AES encryption algorithm (Advanced Encryption Standard). To protect your document you can provide 2 passwords (the 2nd password is optional). Passwords have always been a problem when it comes to security as users tend to pick a password that is easy for them to remember. This also means that the password is most likely easy to crack. By using 2 passwords and performing multiple iterations of encryption, it makes it much harder to crack the passwords. If someone manages to crack password 1, all they will get back is encrypted text, so it would be very hard to them to know they have cracked that password….

What’s it good for? Aside from those things I’ve already mentioned – and repeating some too  – the developer again to put ideas in your head:

Passwords to other sites: When you have to create passwords for different sites and systems, people tend to stick to the same passwords as they are easy to remember. It is a better idea to create unique and strong passwords and then store them in SafePad. You only then need to remember the 2 SafePad passwords. SafePad even has a built in password generator where you can create secure passwords and insert them straight into your document.

Banking and Card Details: Banking log on details and card information is generally quite hard to remember. You can safely store them in SafePad protected by your 2 master passwords instead of having them written down on paper somewhere.

Any Other Secrets: SafePad is a text editor so you can write anything you like in your document. This is great for storing your ideas and plans that you want to keep secret. Theft of commercial secrets is big business, so don’t open yourself up to the risk.

I think you all have an idea what this program does. Now all you need to know is where your can download it – and if you’re masochistic, read even more about it. So here you go…

You can read more about and/or download SafePad from here.

Lucky for all of us this developer does not play whack-a-mole with the download buttons. The site is clean and SafePad is free and free from malware and PUPs. We tested this program on July 5, 2016.