LinkLocker

LinkLocker uses a certificate provided by Let's Encrypt to enable TLS 1.2 encryption over https. Let's Encrypt is a not-for-profit initiative to spread the use of encrypted transfer to as much of the Web as possible. Their certificates provide verification that a site is what it says it is, and allow for fully encrypted data transfer between two parties (in LinkLocker's case, this means between our server and your computer). These certificates have in the past been costly to obtain, thus ...

If you're a Pinboard or Instapaper user, you can export your links and other data from those services and then easily import them into your LinkLocker account. Adding all your existing links is a great way to put the site through its paces if you're a beta user—in which case we love you. It's also a great way to go all in on LinkLocker and leave those other services behind...in which case we really love you. Just head to the import page if you're a TL;DR type, or read on if you'd like to know more about how this works.

I just want to make a couple of quick assurances about data storage, with respect to both security and to redundancy...

The biggest reason why I decided to make LinkLocker is that none of the bookmarking / content hoarding services on the market are really taking their users' privacy seriously. In many ways, privacy is often an afterthought even in the very best case scenarios when it comes to online services, and after several years of wondering when we'd start to see products that were truly concerned about protecting customers and their data, I was really feeling pretty frustrated with the state of things on the ...

The first beta invitations are out! We'll be starting with a very small pool of testers, and slowly scaling up from there over the next couple of months. It's really nice to see LinkLocker start to make its way out into the world.