Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

Post by debo_ » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 12:20 PM UTC

2rsf wrote: post #117

monlockandkey wrote: post #67

I don't agree with the self hosted Bitwarden philosophy. Having a "server" to manage passwords is overkill for most people. The best is to use an encrypted keepass file stored on your cloud storage (Google drive, Dropbox etc). It is portable and easy to access from anywhere ( don't need to VPN to your local network). Not a fan of the self hosted server password management model. Doesn't make any sense unless managing…

I agree with the first part of your statement, but how do you access an encrypted keepass file from mobiles?

Post by taneq » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 12:23 PM UTC

dabeeeenster wrote: post #128

tiffanyh wrote: post #13

FYI - Bitwarden took $100M in VC money last year. At some point, the pressure to aggressively monetize will unfortunately happen. https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/06/open-source-password-manag...

As someone who much prefers bootstrapping businesses, this seems like a just insane amount of money to raise. If you had a growing popular product like this, why on earth would you raise that amount of money? This isn't a rhetorical question btw! I would honestly like to know the rationale here?!

Post by cooperadymas » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 12:28 PM UTC

pil0u wrote: post #79

Aerbil313 wrote: post #71

I have no passwords. Don't get me wrong, I don't use a password manager either. Not a single one of them is truly portable, safe or secure. What if you lose all your electronics? All your belongings? Your house burns down in a fire? The cloud gets hacked? You have conflicting interests with US government and they kindly request your passwords from Apple? You have conflicting interests with any other country and they…

Interesting. If say 3 passwords using that algorithm leaked, would it be possible to deduce the algorithm itself? Edit: what about digit-only password?

Post by oooyay » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 12:38 PM UTC

mananaysiempre wrote: post #142

oooyay wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never heard "web 1.0 guy" as a pejorative, on top of what you said. For the curious, Michael Crandell is the CEO and he founded Right Scale in 2007 which exited in 2018 with 250 employees. He was EVP at eFax in the early aughts, which would have been somewhere in his twenties. He's a Stanford and Harvard graduate as well as a self-taught programmer in assembly. Here's an interview with him: https://medium.com/au…

> he founded Right Scale in 2007 which exited in 2018 with 250 employees. A strong negative signal as far as I am concerned. For a consumer-oriented software startup, an “exit” is most of the time a polite euphemism for selling the userbase to a juicing machine of some sort; the second place is taken by selling the product to an enterprise-oriented business which doesn’t want the userbase and eventually will, with mo…

Post by tycho-newman » Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 12:42 PM UTC

dabeeeenster wrote: post #128

tiffanyh wrote: post #13

FYI - Bitwarden took $100M in VC money last year. At some point, the pressure to aggressively monetize will unfortunately happen. https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/06/open-source-password-manag...

As someone who much prefers bootstrapping businesses, this seems like a just insane amount of money to raise. If you had a growing popular product like this, why on earth would you raise that amount of money? This isn't a rhetorical question btw! I would honestly like to know the rationale here?!