LogMeIn acquires Lastpass • Hacker News Board

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by qntmfred » Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 1:25 PM UTC

yoshamano wrote: post #37

a3n wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My first reaction to reading the title was "why?" You're reading Hacker News. You know what "exit" means.

This is true, but my first reaction was as a LastPass customer not as an observer of the company. I also agree with colinplamondon's comment "The thing I liked about LastPass was that it seemed like the highly geeky, less startupy approach to password managers, more likely to be run for the long-term, less likely to be at risk of an acquisition." So the thought of them seeking an exit never crossed my mind.

makes the point that this startup culture with a focus on exits and maker founders and VCs rich is often not beneficial to our customers

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by lewisl9029 » Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 1:26 PM UTC

Tinyyy wrote: post #27

Honestly if you're a security / privacy company, can you please just not get acquired? You can't 'transfer' your customers' trust to a third party like you transfer cash.

Agreed. Or just open source it so we won't have to trust you.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 1:26 PM UTC

sigh

And I literally just migrated all of my stuff from KeePass to LastPass like two weeks ago.

Back to the drawing board, I suppose.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by pixard » Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 1:26 PM UTC

baldfat wrote: post #38

sri_cyberdude wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use opensource keepass. Sync my password db via dropbox. Totally works for me.

Using Dropbox for Security seems like a oxymoron? I fail to see that as anything I am willing to use.

Why? The database itself is encrypted. Dropbox is just a easy way to sync it between devices.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by baldfat » Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 1:28 PM UTC

Linux User - I am looking at Keeper https://keepersecurity.com

My devices - Linux Desktop, Laptop, Windows 7, 8 and 10 Machines at work, Android Phone, iPad (Work)

Lastpass worked on all of them. The only alternative I could find was Keeper https://keepersecurity.com that worked with all of my devices.

Anyone have experience with Keeper Security?

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by resurge » Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 1:29 PM UTC

baldfat wrote: post #21

ghshephard wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I chose 1Password because it works seamlessly across iPhone/MacBook/Windows. https://agilebits.com/onepassword/windows

Linux?

They have browser extensions, so you can use it through that way on Linux it seems.

https://agilebits.com/onepassword/extensions/

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by kieranajp » Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 1:29 PM UTC

baldfat wrote: post #21

ghshephard wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I chose 1Password because it works seamlessly across iPhone/MacBook/Windows. https://agilebits.com/onepassword/windows

Linux?

The Windows version runs fine in WINE, alternatively they offer a very cut-down web-based solution called 1Password Anywhere (which I use on my Chromebook).

(There's an official Android client too, which wasn't mentioned above)

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by buro9 » Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 1:30 PM UTC

baldfat wrote: post #45

Linux User - I am looking at Keeper https://keepersecurity.com My devices - Linux Desktop, Laptop, Windows 7, 8 and 10 Machines at work, Android Phone, iPad (Work) Lastpass worked on all of them. The only alternative I could find was Keeper https://keepersecurity.com that worked with all of my devices. Anyone have experience with Keeper Security?

Likewise, I'm similarly cross-platform and just found http://enpass.io/

Wondered if people have experience with them.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by Keats » Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 1:35 PM UTC

colinplamondon wrote: post #26

coldpie wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, use an open source one.

Pretty key to have high quality mobile apps. Another big use case is having my teams be able to share passwords. Highly useful to be able to have access groups like "team" (everyone, things like Zendesk) "team-secure" (stuff with CC's, like Amazon), "dev" (general dev accounts), and "dev-secure" (compose.io access and the like). Makes it way faster to onboard new folks, and when people leave, to cleanly strip access…

Doesn't solve the mobile apps part but we run https://passopolis.com/, a continuation of Mitro (https://www.mitro.co/) that shutdown a couple of days ago.

The server and the chrome/firefox extensions that are opensource (https://github.com/WeAreWizards/passopolis-server, https://github.com/WeAreWizards/passopolis-extensions).

Right now it's mostly for us and other mitro escapees to continue using it so we didn't bother with the site design or the mobile apps. The exact feature you mention would be the first one to be done if we decide to monetize it though ! It would say opensource as well.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by thehoff » Fri, Oct 09, 2015, 1:36 PM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #48

baldfat wrote: post #45

Linux User - I am looking at Keeper https://keepersecurity.com My devices - Linux Desktop, Laptop, Windows 7, 8 and 10 Machines at work, Android Phone, iPad (Work) Lastpass worked on all of them. The only alternative I could find was Keeper https://keepersecurity.com that worked with all of my devices. Anyone have experience with Keeper Security?

Likewise, I'm similarly cross-platform and just found http://enpass.io/ Wondered if people have experience with them.

Am I blind? Where is the pricing for Enpass? It says free download free updates but then in middle it says pay once use forever.