1Password encrypts the contents locally before syncing to the cloud. I would never have used 1Password unless I thought they took security seriously.
Have there ever been any reports of a user having been compromised?
1Password encrypts the contents locally before syncing to the cloud. I would never have used 1Password unless I thought they took security seriously.
would you mind commenting on the security implications when using 1PasswordAnywhere? Most of the 1password contents are encrypted, but 1Password.html and other stuff isn't. Is there anything in place to mitigate the chance of those being modified? Maybe published gpg signatures, or a list of checksums?
Thanks!
Fair and valid point.
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I do feel more safe and peace of mind using MoxierWallet as my data is encrypted locally on my hard drive only and not in the cloud.
Have there ever been any reports of a user having been compromised?
That's not entirely true. Many current enterprise databases contain the ability to encrypt data and only the application (or user) that is authorized will decrypt the data - all very seamless and automatic (Oracle for instance can do this).
I think you meant iCloud and not iCouldiCould or Dropbox?
The same applies to any cloud service. Stuff is stored "somewhere" but we don't know exactly where. Google can't even guarantee us that data is stored in the EU nor can Microsoft or Dropbox. They can't even guarantee on what server it will be stored because they use the same kind of cloud services as banks (and many others) do. They outsource it to some party that can scale up or down the capacity that is necessary.But it's in the banks cloud, not some third party company I have no idea about.
Have there ever been any reports of a user having been compromised?
You sure about that. Banks outsource all the time, we have no idea where our financial data is stored.
Fair and valid point.....
The same applies to any cloud service. Stuff is stored "somewhere" but we don't know exactly where. Google can't even guarantee us that data is stored in the EU nor can Microsoft or Dropbox. They can't even guarantee on what server it will be stored because they use the same kind of cloud services as banks (and many others) do. ...
In most countries there are laws about how to store certain kinds of data. In case of banks it has to be encrypted. ...
If syncing over Dropbox, an iCloud backup would restore the local file if the Dropbox file corrupted, correct?
would you mind commenting on the security implications when using 1PasswordAnywhere? Most of the 1password contents are encrypted, but 1Password.html and other stuff isn't. Is there anything in place to mitigate the chance of those being modified? Maybe published gpg signatures, or a list of checksums?
Just tonight I found the first issue with 1Password. I got a new MBP for work, so I set everything up, and I have been using 1Password on Dropbox so all has been great in terms of syncing. Now I had the task of installing my software I use on the new machine. I didn't want to copy over the preferences, I wanted a clean install. One application that I use is called CuteClips3; nice little clipboard manager app. But it's registration code is an image, not a serial number. Anyway, in the past I had added the image file to my CuteClips3 software item in 1Password. Today when I went to retrieve that image I get the following.
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Now, oddly enough, I went to my old machine and had no problems getting the data, thus I know it's good in the archive, but for some reason it wouldn't let me pull it out. First time this has happened to me.
BTW, 1Password is one of those pieces of software I cannot live without, it's awesome and made my task tonight so much easier.
That's not fun. Just a heads up that this may require that you contact us directly for support as I may need some more information that we don't want to post to a public forum.
Not a problem, I'll PM you.
I think I have realized what has happened. Since it was a new install, I pointed 1Password at the dropbox folder. BUT I didn't stop to think that maybe dropbox wasn't fully synced yet. I was able to get to the core of the files and thus why 1Password mostly worked, but when I tried to pull out something larger, it wouldn't work (dragging to desktop, export, anything resulted in the same error).
I just retried, the machine was on all night for other things, and now it works fine. I'm guessing the dropbox sync was in progress before and now it's not.
So chalk this one up as User Error, I was impatient.