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LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by wscott »

Lastpass premium customer here. It was $12/yr. (that will probably change after the 2yr/$15M target is over)

Right now lastpass encrypts in the browser and the company only saves a binary blob that they can't access. So your data is safe. But they said, "As we become part of the LogMeIn family over the next several months, we’ll be releasing updates to LastPass, introducing new features.." that makes me nervous.

The comments here have lots of suggestions like keepass, but none of them really compare with the Lasspass Android support where it will automatically log you into apps.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by Oletros »

cozuya wrote: post #68
ghshephard wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Does it have android fingerprint login/auth like Lastpass? This is my favorite feature and would hate to lose it.

No, it doesn't and it seems that it doesn't have 2 factor authentication or yubikey supper

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by corin_ »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #69
onwardly wrote: post #53

Price was $110M + $15M in contingency payments. From the LogMeIn investor release[1] Under the terms of the transaction, LogMeIn will pay $110 million in cash upon close for all outstanding equity interests in LastPass, with up to an additional $15 million in cash payable in contingent payments which are expected to be paid to equity holders and key employees of LastPass upon the achievement of certain milestone and…

That's funny. The LogMeIn employees have a financial stake in making sure that people DON'T exit en masse after the acquisition. I wonder why? I would caution, then, that any interviews given by any staffer to the effect of "LastPass is not changing, your data is perfectly safe with LogMeIn, the prices will not skyrocket, etc." over the next few months should be taken with a grain of salt, since they quite literally…

As opposed to any other acquisition (excl. acquihires) where the company doesn't have any incentive to keep customers at all and therefore everything they say must be completely true?

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by wscott »

vmuhonen wrote: post #52
klausjensen wrote: post #10

Are there any real alternatives to Lastpass, that has working browser plugins and also work on Android devices?

One option I've been meaning to look, but haven't had a reason to because of LastPass is Encryptr [ https://encryptr.org/ ], but now I might need to. They have Android and Linux support, but not browser plugin I think. Also, it comes from the same people as SpiderOak...

Encryptr is interesting and looks very nice. Includes source: https://github.com/devgeeks/Encryptr

But it doesn't appear to have anything like Lasspass's autofill on android that supports the fingerprint reader.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by koyote »

bargl wrote: post #56

Well looks like I'm going to have to convince, my wife, family, extended family, and friends that they all have to switch password managers now. I'm blown away, I've been a fan since day one because of it's simplicity and availability. I am torn between waiting to see what happens and giving them the benefit of the doubt and just changing all my passwords before Logmein can f--- me.

Having not used anything by Logmein or heard much about them, what's the reasoning behind wanting to jump ship asap?

Are they just bad at running a company or are you scared they will sell your data or similar?

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #80
bargl wrote: post #56

Well looks like I'm going to have to convince, my wife, family, extended family, and friends that they all have to switch password managers now. I'm blown away, I've been a fan since day one because of it's simplicity and availability. I am torn between waiting to see what happens and giving them the benefit of the doubt and just changing all my passwords before Logmein can f--- me.

I don't know why this guy is being downvoted. I, too, am now looking for a new password manager. All I need one is that does local decrypting only, supports Chrome and Firefox, and can do Android as well.

Unnecessary negativity; against the HN standards.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by bargl »

koyote wrote: post #85
bargl wrote: post #56

Well looks like I'm going to have to convince, my wife, family, extended family, and friends that they all have to switch password managers now. I'm blown away, I've been a fan since day one because of it's simplicity and availability. I am torn between waiting to see what happens and giving them the benefit of the doubt and just changing all my passwords before Logmein can f--- me.

Having not used anything by Logmein or heard much about them, what's the reasoning behind wanting to jump ship asap? Are they just bad at running a company or are you scared they will sell your data or similar?

Just based on the bad things everyone else is saying about them, I have to do some research and see if they are a good or crap company. They just have a lot of power regarding my passwords, and they are an unknown to me, but , in the other thread they were seriously disliked.

Edit: I read some of the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359491 and most of them have bad things to say about LogMeIn.

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