Live data from Hacker News

Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

donjon.ledger.com

41–50 of 122 posts

Re: Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

#41
post #32
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to use 1password for work and hate the UI compared to bitwarden

Could you please elaborate? I've been using 1password for a while, and I can't imagine how it could be any better

Same. We have it at work, but 1Password's UI is the reason I use it at home as well.

Re: Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

#42
To me, using a Password Manager puts you at risk, no matter which one you use. I cannot speak to windows, but on Linux, I use a encrypted text file via emacs. And to generate passwords:

tr -cd "[:alnum:]" And a real TL;DR:

Upgrade your Kaspersky Password Manager

Re: Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

#43
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any data, if we talk factual?

Poke any notable Soviet science and technology figure and see if they have KGB in their biography. Soviet R&D wasn't structured within end users but was own network of research institutes and design bureaus. So if you wanted to work say on solid state rockets you wouldn't go to artillery school but rather something like Central Scientific Research Institute of Heat and Mass Exchange. There you'd be working for tactic…

When you are starting working on real rockets, the KGB must give you clearance.

So I bet every one of the notable figures had some KGB in their biography.

Re: Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

#44
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Poke any notable Soviet science and technology figure and see if they have KGB in their biography. Soviet R&D wasn't structured within end users but was own network of research institutes and design bureaus. So if you wanted to work say on solid state rockets you wouldn't go to artillery school but rather something like Central Scientific Research Institute of Heat and Mass Exchange. There you'd be working for tactic…

When you are starting working on real rockets, the KGB must give you clearance. So I bet every one of the notable figures had some KGB in their biography.

Being investigated by KGB is so categorically different thing than being a KGB officer that I'm not even sure where to start.

But sure: Sergei Korolev, the champion of Soviet space programe had his jaw permanently broken in one of NKVD/KGB torture sessions. This later led to his untimely demise.

Re: Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

#46
post #24
post #5

I use Bitwarden and it's open source. Switched over from LastPass and haven't regretted it since

What did you find was better about Bitwarden?

No restrictions on number of devices for one.

Everything else was the same and I didn't feel like I losing out, so it was easy to switch. They have an import tool that made it easier

Re: Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

#47
post #42

To me, using a Password Manager puts you at risk, no matter which one you use. I cannot speak to windows, but on Linux, I use a encrypted text file via emacs. And to generate passwords: tr -cd "[:alnum:]" And a real TL;DR: Upgrade your Kaspersky Password Manager

How does that encrypted text file put you less at risk than a password manager?

A password manager might have extra features such as browser plugins that provide a larger attack surface, but they can be switched off entirely. So, if you use more functionality than the encrypted text file, you might have more risk, fair enough, but when you use the same functionality, the risk seems comparable (or even: a password manager seems to offer somewhat more functionality for comparable risk).

Re: Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

#48
post #31
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

KGB school student and later KGB officer...sounds plausible. BTW: that whole thing must be before 1991 (KGB) and kaspersky was founded in 1997 (where KGB wasn't anymore).

KGB was renamed and split into four agencies (FSB, SVR, FAPSI and FSK) that were later merged down back to FSB and SVR. There are still KGB people working there that didn't even have to move their offices. The country is now ran by a clique of ex-KGB hardliners but I guess that does not count because it was renamed in 1991.

So it's not KGB anymore right? And not a KGB School right? And your Picture has nothing todo with kaspersky right?

Re: Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

#49
post #48
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

KGB was renamed and split into four agencies (FSB, SVR, FAPSI and FSK) that were later merged down back to FSB and SVR. There are still KGB people working there that didn't even have to move their offices. The country is now ran by a clique of ex-KGB hardliners but I guess that does not count because it was renamed in 1991.

So it's not KGB anymore right? And not a KGB School right? And your Picture has nothing todo with kaspersky right?

I'm not sure what is your point here. There is an unbroken contiunity of CheKa/NKVD/MGB/KGB/FSB.

Re: Kaspersky Password Manager: All your passwords are belong to us

#50
post #49
post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So it's not KGB anymore right? And not a KGB School right? And your Picture has nothing todo with kaspersky right?

I'm not sure what is your point here. There is an unbroken contiunity of CheKa/NKVD/MGB/KGB/FSB.

I'm not sure what you try to proof with your picture and kaspersky.

>There is an unbroken contiunity of CheKa/NKVD/MGB/KGB/FSB

Same could be said about OSS -> CIA right?

>Kaspersky's Advanced School of KGB graduation

Then this can't be an official Name right?

Post reply on HN