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Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by caskance »

berfarah wrote: post #127
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.

A prime acquisition target, would you say?

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by microtonal »

electricblue wrote: post #126

I'm thinking about going with KeePass. I don't want to deal with this again with 1Password if/when they get bought.

I think there is an important difference between LastPass and 1Password: 1Password stores data in a folder you point it to. It is never in any form transferred to their servers.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by aylons »

IgorPartola wrote: post #23
mpclark wrote: post #6

These acquisition announcements are always the same, and always get the same sort of comments. They tell of good fortune for the owners of the thing that has been sold, but never tell the users what's in it for them. And that's usually because there is nothing in it for them. What am I supposed to be happy about?

I can't exactly agree with you. First, lots of acquisitions are good for the user because they often mean backing by a larger entity with deeper pockets, ensuring that the service you use will be around for longer. Second, why do they owe you anything? Either you are a free user, at which point you don't really have a whole lot of say in what they do with their own company, or you are paying $12 for a stellar passwor…

> Second, why do they owe you anything? Either you are a free user, at which point you don't really have a whole lot of say in what they do with their own company, or you are paying $12 for a stellar password manager, which I would say is definitely worth it.

Because I not only paid US$12,00 to them, but I have also invested time and thought in building habits and procedures based on their service.

If they their service becomes unworthy or cumbersome, or if I have any reason to distrust them, I'll have to look elsewhere, not only costing me time, but also giving me uncertainty and possibly having to choose a new service. And, if I have chosen Lastpass, is because I believe other services are not worth as much.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

#136

Post by quaunaut »

microtonal wrote: post #128
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.

I tried it for all of a week in the past. It's the top one I'm looking at moving to, but honestly the reviews that have been done by users of both are lacking on information, so I don't know what I'm giving up.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

#137

Post by microtonal »

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 only way to get some (read-only) support in Linux is by syncing the 1Password folder with Dropbox (last time I tried it did not work locally). If you open the webpage that is in that folder via Dropbox, you can log-in and read password.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by WorldMaker »

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…

You could easily store KeePass database files on a network share. Create one file per access group, for instance. KeePass works pretty well with multiple database files (it has a simple tabbed interface when you do so and you can do things like color code the icons in the tabs). You can use network share permissions to make the database files read-only to particular users and KeePass will do the right thing with read-only files (mark it as read-only in the UI and disallow editing actions).

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by ge0 »

quaunaut wrote: post #136
microtonal wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I tried it for all of a week in the past. It's the top one I'm looking at moving to, but honestly the reviews that have been done by users of both are lacking on information, so I don't know what I'm giving up.

Very happy user of 1password here, features, UX and overall ethos of Agilebits are to be commended
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