I’m thinking of peppering some of my important passwords.1Password all the way (gulp, hope they don't get hacked)
I’m thinking of peppering some of my important passwords.1Password all the way (gulp, hope they don't get hacked)
I used 1Pass for years until it went to a subscription model and now use Bitwarden.
Hopefully the Apple setup works as good or better than both programs. (fingers crossed)
Been using LastPass for a long time. 1Password didn't even exist back then.
And Linux and Android? Sharing passwords with family members? iCloud is useless with this.There's a Windows extension for Chrome/Edge. And it supports 2FA codes as well. You just need the Microsoft Store version of iCloud.
Exactly. I play around with Linux and android also, password managers make this very easy.Because some of us have to work across platforms. If one were to only stay within the Apple ecosystem, sure you can use the built-in password manager.
Not even close. A lot further along than it used to be but not a full fledged password manager.A lot of people are talking about icloud/keychain, is it really an alternative to Bitwarden/1pass/lastpass?
I think 1Password was Mac only at the time.Wrong. Lastpass came along in 2008. 1Password has been around since 2005.![]()
Good point!And Linux and Android? Sharing passwords with family members? iCloud is useless with this.
Exactly. I play around with Linux and android also, password managers make this very easy.
I visit the Bitwarden site to check it out and I'm presented with a pricing options button.
How does it sync between Mac and Windows?
I could have written this post myself. I have my own vault, my wife has hers and we have a bunch of things shared. We pay $60 a year for logging into things to be a completely solved problem. We've even got scans of our drivers licenses and a few other docs in there. The UI is easy to use and I've yet to hear of a security breach with them. I get the aversion to subscriptions but this is something I use every day and it works securely and well. I'm happy to pay the price.I'm a long-time user of 1Password. I love the service. I have family sharing with my wife and it makes everything a breeze. She is not technical at all, but having a shared vault and the ease of use from 1Password has made her using complex randomly generated 50-character passwords, a different one for each service.
"I use XYZ service!" - yeah, like XYZ cannot be hacked?
Fixing security by putting all egs in one basket and trusting some 3rd party to take care of those. Yeah, right. Sounds so good plan!
That's a really interesting idea, even just 1 keystroke could flip it all on its head.I’m thinking of peppering some of my important passwords.
Except it's not. From the summary "Our customers' passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture." It's a something you have (the key) and something you know (your master password) system. Short of breaking the encryption itself (which would indeed be profound) the data are safe.The aftermath of this hack is profound.
Just a minor detail... If your home network is connected to the Internet one way or another, there may be external access to your network despite any firewalls. Only a completely isolated network is safe, as long as you do not use wireless access and can take care of the physical security of the network. Most home networks offer some Internet connectivity, that is usually their main purpose.It’s running in a docker container on my NAS so all my devices sync with it perfectly when they’re connected to my home network and the data volume is backed up nightly to both a separate NAS and to an encrypted cloud service. There is no external access to my home network.
Hopefully I’ve got all bases covered. It requires some hardware and some technical know-how to set up but it is a quite a neat solution. It could probably be run just fine on a cheap raspberry pi too.
For those people saying they won't trust any company with their passwords, how do you manage your passwords? Not being snarky, I am curious. Do you have them written down on a notepad? Do you use the same password everywhere?
I agree with all of this, having been a satisfied 1pass user for 10++ years.I'm a happy 1Password user. Sure, it's a subscription but:
- the subscription is much less than the cost of my time setting up, hosting and maintaining my own password manager setup
- YMMV but the 1Password staff - full-time, including security professionals etc - will be able to do this much better than my efforts (even if I had the time) - it's much more likely that I'll seriously mess up rather than them
- I use 1Password everyday so the small monthly cost is worthwhile to me
- it's cross-platform
- I don't mind the Electron Mac app - it does its job and gets out of my way when not needed
- if it goes wrong or there's a bug which affects me, there's someone at 1Password I can contact and get meaningful responses - compare that to trying to get anything from Apple for bugs in macOS!