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Am I the only person on Earth that needs sharing of passwords among my family? Any time folks bring up password solutions, they are always missing this requirement for me. 1Password is a life-saver in this regards. All my kids have their own vaults but for the little ones I have them use a shared vault between my wife and me so we have access to their passwords. I can also easily share passwords for services like Net…
Why wont Keychain allow Firefox sync? This seems like an extremely common use case.
> And it all syncs across your devices, for free?! Really? My Linux devices? Android? Windows? I don't think so. I recommend considering one of the most important features of a password manager is that it doesn't force you to use a single manufacturer's products forever. Even if you swear undying fealty to Apple (or anyone else) today, you might change your mind in the future. 1Password, Bitwarden, and others allow m…
> Even if you swear undying fealty to Apple (or anyone else) today, you might change your mind in the future. Changing my mind is easy enough: I can export my iCloud passwords to a csv file, and I've done this to transfer a bunch of passwords to Firefox Linux desktop. I'll tell you something though: If Bitwarden leaked passwords nothing would happen because America has very weak consumer protections, but if Google or…
It's incredible how Apple make it's users happy to lock-in in their eco-system. I don't really know Apple eco-system but it seems weird to migrate from tierce app (already well integrated) like Bitwarden to keychain. I've lost count of the people who have switched from their Music App to Apple Music for no reason other than "it's Apple". Apple make good hardware and their eco-system seem amazing too, but people shoul…
I think you're overestimating how much the average person thinks or cares about their computing platforms. They want something that works and gets out of the way, and to that end having everything come from one company is a feature, not a bug.
I mean I consider myself a power user and I still use iCloud Keychain purely because I was already using Safari when it launched, so it already had all my passwords. I recognise the advantages of third-party offerings, but to me they're not enough to bother moving all my stuff over.
Similarly I still use a third-party 2FA app because I was using it before Apple added it into iCloud Keychain (and also because the third-party app has an Apple Watch app and I've grown accustomed to reading the codes off my wrist).
I get nervous at how easy it is to compromise all passwords:
1. Give someone your phone passcode, they can change apple account password. P0wned
2. Have iCloud Keychain on laptop… other user account resets password on account. (Or use it on work computer without realizing)
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And 1Password is part of that too: https://blog.1password.com/1password-is-joining-the-fido-all...
I think that ultimately a password tool needs to be available on multiple platforms, like 1Password. Having it just be on Apple stuff just isn't gonna work for the many Windows and Linux machines I begrudgingly have to interact with.
i would prefer icloud keychain allows an alternative password - i refrain from adding some credentials to the keychain since my passcode is easy to steal?
My best guess is that Apple won't do it because their plan is to phase out passwords entirely. That's what that whole FIDO Alliance ( https://fidoalliance.org ) is all about. And 1Password is part of that too: https://blog.1password.com/1password-is-joining-the-fido-all... I think that ultimately a password tool needs to be available on multiple platforms, like 1Password. Having it just be on Apple stuff just isn't g…