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LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by jronald »

Justsignedup wrote: post #73

Anyone aware of good alternatives? Primarily for enterprise customers who want to share passwords between teams. We have developers, and regular ol' employees who use this of varying levels of computer comfort. We need to be able to share passwords org-wide and team-wide. And on a personal note, I need to be able to manage my own passwords and my partner's and we share from time to time.

We're testing Hashicorp's vault - why share system passwords when you can use OTPs provided on demand? Its still early, but looks promising to me.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by sp332 »

yoshamano wrote: post #9

My first reaction to reading the title was "why?" After reading the article (and then reading it again) I'm not left feeling confident that this is in any way positive for me as a LastPass Premium and Xmarks customer. In particular the vague line about, "As we become part of the LogMeIn family over the next several months, we’ll be releasing updates to LastPass, introducing new features..." To me, LastPass is feature…

The product is going to merged with another password manager LogMeIn acquired, Meldium.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by bluedino »

gtk40 wrote: post #5
bluedino wrote: post #3

I cringed when we got this email since we use LogMeIn Pro at work. For everyone else, I hope they don't butcher the free version like they did with LogMeIn.

As someone who has never used LogMeIn, could you explain what the problems are? I use LastPass pretty extensively (and was thinking of buying a subscription later this month), but have never used LogMeIn.

My beef with them was when we quit using the 'Pro' product. We were using a feature that let us do software updates and scripting, which was kind of pointless when we could do those things with Windows server or other solutions.

We then went down to the 'Central' version of LogMeIn, as it still provided remote access capabilities (which was all we wanted) and were able to save a bit of money. Well, two months later they billed us the full renewal price of the old product ($2499) and it took us 6 months of back and forth with them to refund that.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by discreditable »

mitchty wrote: post #106
sri_cyberdude wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Are there plugins for safari/firefox/chrome and does it work on ios and have a nice little cli? I'm basically preparing to bail on lastpass with this news but need to have all my bases covered.

> Are there plugins for safari/firefox/chrome

I just save+sync passwords in Firefox and use a strong master password. I (usually) only need to paste the password from Keepass once unless I elect to not save it (such as with financial logins).

> does it work on ios?

Google seems to return lots of results for iOS Keepass apps. You'll want to vet them on your own. I use KeePassDroid on Android and like it well enough.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by berfarah »

Justsignedup wrote: post #73

Anyone aware of good alternatives? Primarily for enterprise customers who want to share passwords between teams. We have developers, and regular ol' employees who use this of varying levels of computer comfort. We need to be able to share passwords org-wide and team-wide. And on a personal note, I need to be able to manage my own passwords and my partner's and we share from time to time.

Dashlane is phenomenal for sharing passwords and excellent for auditing them.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by microtonal »

quaunaut wrote: post #101

Huh. Gotta admit, I'm rather distressed by this, but I'm trying to think through it logically. * They still don't have access to my raw passwords. Everything's already encrypted before it gets to them, and they don't have the key. They just store the encrypted data. * They however do control access to the account. This means there's a point where they get all sorts of data on me, and while I personally don't mind, I…

This isn't quite a reason to jump ship for me yet, but I'll certainly be duplicating work to other services(which so far, I've found to be quite inferior).

Did you try 1Password (which works with Dropbox, Wifi sync, etc.)? Not affiliated with them, just a happy customer.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by WorldMaker »

mitchty wrote: post #106
sri_cyberdude wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Are there plugins for safari/firefox/chrome and does it work on ios and have a nice little cli? I'm basically preparing to bail on lastpass with this news but need to have all my bases covered.

With KeePass I haven't felt the need for a browser plugin: Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V is easy enough for my tastes. Plus, in Windows the "auto fill" works more often than not (reducing things to just Ctrl+V in KeePass).

There are multiple KeePass clients on iOS and just about all of them support things like Dropbox sync.

A curses-based CLI for KeePass, KeePassC was just recently on HN: http://raymontag.github.io/keepassc/

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