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LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

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Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

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Post by gravitas »

lifty wrote: post #7

Bitwarden is a nice alternative. And you can self-host the server part if you want. edit: LastPass is owned by LogMeIn, that's why I mention this alternative.

I'm a +1 on BitWarden, I moved over pretty early on (paid account is only $10/yr) due to their fantastic migration page telling me point blank "LastPass may screw up special characters exporting your data" and lo and behold, my initial export had a bunch of HTML entities injected just like they said. That disclosure/warning sold me right then and there: https://help.bitwarden.com/article/import-from-lastpass/

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

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Post by kemonocode »

rietta wrote: post #8
tcd wrote: post #5

Keepass; open source, can store the file wherever you wish, isn't liable to be acquired by a private entity since you can just build your own copy. Use open source software wherever possible, it's just better that way.

Does it work to sync between Linux dev machine and iOS phone?

KeePass + Syncthing fulfills all my needs and all without needing to use something like Dropbox or Google Drive for the syncing. You're still free to do so if you want to keep backups, but I manage those separately using a third tool (Duplicati)

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

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Post by bilekas »

wffurr wrote: post #3
chrisblackwell wrote: post #2

LastPass... :-(

1Password is better and unlikely to be acquired. They are quite profitable on their own.

Nice option, will make the move over now I think..

Out of interest before I go and google/write it, is there any 'automatic-as-possible' transfer tools/scripts ?

The 1Password cli is a nice touch I must admit.

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

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Post by jmuguy »

My old company used Logmein professionally to remotely manage 100s of computers for many years before switching to ConnectWise.

They had a great product for a long time but some of the worse licensing decisions I've ever seen. It went from being completely free to several thousand dollars overnight without any additional features, support, etc being offered. And meanwhile development was stagnant with only weird changes to the UI and punitive changes to free users being rolled out.

We would have been more than willing to pay for licensing. Even in the end it was the one product we found that could do some really cool stuff remotely (like recover a frozen Windows system and reboot it into safe mode). But they just handled the business side of things like complete idiots.

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

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Post by gruez »

Mirioron wrote: post #40
rietta wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it work to sync between Linux dev machine and iOS phone?

It's not a full service. It's an application. It doesn't have any sync built in. It's just a way to save, open, and edit encrypted password files. You have to figure out a way to sync it yourself. There might be other tools that help you with that though. Although I'm unsure which OSes are officially supported by the application.

>Although I'm unsure which OSes are officially supported by the application.

only windows/linux (mono). There are alternative clients though. see: https://keepass.info/download.html, under the "Contributed/Unofficial KeePass Ports" section.

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

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Post by arsana »

jacquesm wrote: post #36
arsana wrote: post #17

A lot of comments mentioning alternative password managers. TFA:first line > LogMeIn, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM), a leading provider of cloud-based connectivity, LogMeIn is remote access tool, not password management for websites.

Could you please stop shitting all over a thread with the same wrong/misinformed comment? 80% of the comments in this thread are now you + rebuttals.

shut the fuck up

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

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Post by maccard »

chooseaname wrote: post #47

A lot of discussion surrounding LastPass and alternatives, but what are some actual LogMeIn alternatives that people like?

I use RDP for work, and TeamViewer if I need to fix something for my parents. Chrome Remote Desktop is one other alternative I've used but not in anger.

Re: LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

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Post by spinchange »

lifty wrote: post #7

Bitwarden is a nice alternative. And you can self-host the server part if you want. edit: LastPass is owned by LogMeIn, that's why I mention this alternative.

Thank you for confirming this. I thought LastPass was a LogMeIn entity but it's not mentioned anywhere in the press release.
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