The change was another blow for the whole idea of free services.

To make matters worse, the service didn’t let you choose a device type it arbitrarily picked one for you! Being limited to just one category of devices puts a serious dent in the service’s usefulness. LastPass recently restricted its free service to a tough choice: pay up, or be restricted to using it with either computers or mobile devices. You could, theoretically, host the backend infrastructure yourself. Even the server-side synchronization component is open source. Bitwarden offers browser extensions and apps for all common operating systems. Three years ago, I migrated to Bitwarden as LastPass just kept cutting features and platform support.īitwarden is an open-source alternative to the proprietary LastPass password manager. I eventually got with the time and started using LastPass. It comes down to keeping my passwords out of the browser, and my setup simple and manageable.įor years, I was (and still am) unwilling to trust hosted password manager services. Lowest bidder ftw.Here’s why I decided to move my passwords to a KeePass database file instead of using Bitwarden with a self-hosted server. I am probably becoming an old fart but I've seen it too many times in my life - get rid of the highly skilled expensive people in the name of profit and then wonder why product/service suffers. Who cares if you have a breach? Apologize, move on, continue what you're doing - rake in the $. Issues - despite being on a modern cloud service (Azure, Google, AWS, etc).Įverything in the name of profit. it's easier to do that than pay a competent person a realistic salary. Hire a new cheap employee, give that new cheap employee access they shouldn't have cuz. We all know how companies underfund or flat out ignore IT/security. That said, that still makes their weakest link a big risk. vs having an underpaid/nonexistent IT department try to keep a Windows Server 2012 R2 updated, or whatever. That's the advantage of a cloud service - cloud companies do most the security, patches, latest whatever. And yes, they are definitely a target but the cloud is fairly secure, especially if they're using AWS or another mainstream cloud service.

Click to expand.The videos I've seen where they interviewed the 1P devs/leads- they're pretty resolute on this and I bet it's coming from upstairs (higher up).

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