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Bitwarden raises $100M

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Re: Bitwarden raises $100M

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Post by drstewart »

pwpw wrote: post #155
MaKleSoft wrote: post #125

If you're a Bitwarden user and this doesn't worry you, you haven't been paying attention to the history of almost every company that has accepted VC funds. It doesn't matter how well intentioned the founders are - once you accept that kind of money, it's not your product anymore. You are now in the business of making money, nothing else, and those skewed incentives will start bleeding into their product and business…

That’s a hell of a disclaimer after a decently alarmist comment. You may be correct, but I’m not sure it’s appropriate for you to raise that point given the conflict of interest.

Seriously, talk about burying the lede.

Re: Bitwarden raises $100M

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MaKleSoft wrote: post #125

If you're a Bitwarden user and this doesn't worry you, you haven't been paying attention to the history of almost every company that has accepted VC funds. It doesn't matter how well intentioned the founders are - once you accept that kind of money, it's not your product anymore. You are now in the business of making money, nothing else, and those skewed incentives will start bleeding into their product and business…

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Re: Bitwarden raises $100M

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Post by FlyingSnake »

mcdan wrote: post #133
MaKleSoft wrote: post #125

If you're a Bitwarden user and this doesn't worry you, you haven't been paying attention to the history of almost every company that has accepted VC funds. It doesn't matter how well intentioned the founders are - once you accept that kind of money, it's not your product anymore. You are now in the business of making money, nothing else, and those skewed incentives will start bleeding into their product and business…

Isn't bitwarden[0] already open source and aren't you just asking people to trust you till you take VC money? [0] - https://github.com/bitwarden/server

That's how it looks to me as well. OP's claim borders on FUD and comes a bit disingenuous while shilling their project. Bitwarden is opensource as well and there's also this independent popular 3rd party project that uses the bitwarden protocol that is much loved by the community.[1]

1: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Re: Bitwarden raises $100M

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Post by deliriumchn »

radiKal07 wrote: post #123

Any Apple-devices users here? Why would I use this instead of Apple built-in password manager?

other than getting out of icloud passchain jail, none.

Personally I use bitwarden so I can have unified access to passwords on my windows laptop, iphone and android phones.

Re: Bitwarden raises $100M

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Post by FlyingSnake »

przemub wrote: post #141
nabaraz wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting approach. Any blogs you could point me to? I am also looking to self-host Bitwarden.

I think you don't need anything else by the README of vaultwarden. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden It has worked for me great without any issues for over a year now.

Long time Vaultwarden user as well. The VW docker image works wonders for me.

Re: Bitwarden raises $100M

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Post by scarface74 »

noirbot wrote: post #157
ctvo wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why are large businesses “sharing passwords” between users? What happens when one user leaves? Because not all products businesses use have fine grain authentication and authorization. For example, their registar for their domain names. And differing employees need access to it at different times. > Isn’t sharing a password in a business context like “Things you shouldn’t do” 101? What do you think Bitwarden does?…

It's also useful for things like secure temporary password delivery. I set up your account for the first time with a new service, generate a temp password you have to reset on first login, and then share it to your Password Manager space. Also just useful for things like API keys - my team just has all of our team's allocated API keys for various services in our password manager so we don't have to go look them up in…

I understand the temporary password use case. But what do you do when an employee leaves? Do you change all of the API keys?
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