LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

But RealVNC's products are all built on that same VNC protocol...? At least I see many things referencing it and nothing indicating that they don't use it.

We still sell licenses.

We still provide local vaults, in fact you can use them via a license (that we still sell) AND you can use them with a subscription.

Want to buy a license?

On the Mac app for instance, open it on a fresh installation. Goto the welcome screen that pops up on first launch, from the list of options choose the "Create a new Local Vault" option in the list. This will take you down the path of buying a license.

Or if you sign up for a subscription, goto advanced options and enable the option to create local vaults. You can sync these to Dropbox or iCloud if you wish, same as you always have been.

There's similar options for Windows. Though it only includes Dropbox syncing and not iCloud.

Hope that helps.

Kyle

1Password Security Team

Essentially, I accidentally publicly exposed my private key. I thought I was clever for writing a Python script to dump all my passwords and then re-add them after setting up pass with a new key.

A year later, when I accidentally deleted my private key (reformatted laptop, phone bricked before set laptop back up), I spent a few hours trying to figure out if I made a mistake that would let me recover my passwords. I was very motivated :)

Eventually, I realized that since I'd been using git to sync pass between my phone and computer (the recommended setup) I could access versions of my encrypted data for every account more than a year old and decrypt them with the private key I leaked. I got back almost all my data.

Luckily I was using a private git repository for defense in depth, but many guides recommend a public reposity because they say gpg is very strong.

It all works, but only if you don't do something dumb like I did. Now I'm on 1password and happy knowing that experienced people are paid to make it and smart security researchers like Troy Hunt (of haveibeenpwned fame) have said it's the most secure password manager they've looked into.

In DoD side, they tend to use DameWare. It was stagnant for a while but has gotten better and even has a linux client now. Think "ugly but powerful".

I've seen fly by night engineers hurdled by IT deps using TeamViewer way more than I would ever want to admit. It "just works" but doesnt have many of the management features.

I had an awesome experience with on-prem ScreenConnect, but then they changed their licensing and names and all kinds of other things. Nice featureset, writing plugins was easy. I still might consider it if I could get a decent deal.

Bomgar was pretty polished and has some interesting mobile/mdm stuff in the works last I tried it, but that was a long time ago.

GoToMyPC and LogMeIn both tend to be favorites of MSPs for some reason, I never really liked them mostly because of the management interfaces and constant license changes.

Citrix really seems more focused on real enterprise. Features are nice but the price reflects it, good support.

RDS/Terminal Services in the windows world is a staple, just have to watch for licensing violations which happen a lot. Lacks a lot of the management features other things have, but is built in.

Then you get into open source, which really comes down to some variant of VNC (choose your poison) which is really all just remote desktop with no management features. There is also noVNC and Spice which are pretty cool and used in more and more foss software (like proxmox for example).

There is Apache Guacamole which is like a gateway to access RDS/VNC et al instances, which is pretty cool.

So yeah, it really all depends on your use case and budget.