by Paul Klipp, 14 July 2009

BrokenGlass was built for our internal use, but we'll shortly be releasing it as an open source project. BrokenGlass is a group password manager based on a simple concept. No one needs to know anything, until they do. When your boss catches you online at 2AM and you're the only one in the company awake and a client's server needs a reboot, what do you do? The sleeping SysAdmin has the data you need but that does you no good. With BrokenGlass, a team can store passwords or any other important data securely, and any employee with an account can access that data, but doing so requires a reason and triggers an email to notify the Admin to tell them who accessed what data and when. Hopefully, you'll never need it, but if it sounds like it might be handy, stay tuned for the release notification. It's the data equivalent of leaving a set of house keys with a neighbor.