1Password Has Raised $620M • Hacker News Board

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by mateuszf » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 2:43 PM UTC

only4here wrote: post #14

bombcar wrote: post #5

`But we don’t just want to keep up; our goal is to push the envelope and explore beyond the boundaries of traditional password management.` Hmmm, sounds like the time to migrate may be sooner than I'd hoped.

You can never trust cloud-hosted password managers..

> You can never trust cloud-hosted password managers..

If you examine the source code of a client (for example bitwarden) and make sure that it's not leaking your master password and then compile the soft yourself and not update - you'll be pretty safe.

This will make it similarly secure as e.g. keepass, because even for keepass you should be sure the source is legit

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by scarfacedeb » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 2:43 PM UTC

They're a paid service. Why do they need so much extra funding?!

There's definitely going to be a feature creep and annoying changes.

Time to consider the alternatives again :(

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by koeng » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 2:44 PM UTC

greenSunglass wrote: post #8

any alternative you folks recommend?

I really enjoy using pass / gopass

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by beberlei » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 2:44 PM UTC

bombcar wrote: post #5

`But we don’t just want to keep up; our goal is to push the envelope and explore beyond the boundaries of traditional password management.` Hmmm, sounds like the time to migrate may be sooner than I'd hoped.

I believe this is regarding their new infrastructure secrets product, so hashicorp vault but more corporate maybe.

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by Croftengea » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 2:44 PM UTC

greenSunglass wrote: post #8

any alternative you folks recommend?

Bitwarden, of course.

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by desdiv » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 2:44 PM UTC

greenSunglass wrote: post #8

any alternative you folks recommend?

Bitwarden. Both the client and the server is open source. You can selfhost the server, or you can use their server.

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by Chris2048 » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 2:44 PM UTC

bombcar wrote: post #5

`But we don’t just want to keep up; our goal is to push the envelope and explore beyond the boundaries of traditional password management.` Hmmm, sounds like the time to migrate may be sooner than I'd hoped.

I really hope this means new product offerings with no impact on existing products, rather than "fucking with the product b/c it doesn't make us enough money".. which I'll dub corporate Marak syndrome..

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by dmarchuk » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 2:44 PM UTC

I've been using 1password for years and so far haven't had any problem, all apps (desktop and mobile) work great, but I don't understand why they would need this kind of money, especially considering it's not free or cheap service.

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by Stevvo » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 2:45 PM UTC

greenSunglass wrote: post #8

any alternative you folks recommend?

Google/Chrome offer the best user experience for password management, but I guess many people using 1Password are doing so specifically to avoid Google?

Re: 1Password Has Raised $620M

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Post by kfarr » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 2:45 PM UTC

yokoprime wrote: post #16

lekevicius wrote: post #3

Just makes it more clear: this is no longer a product for "us".

Ok, care to explain your viewpoint further?

Raising hundreds of millions of dollars for a built, profitable product with a tight scope and millions of users usually means the product scope will increase as part of their new remit to drive shareholder return. If people liked the existing tightly scoped product, and for password management simpler is better for many users, this investment indicates the product will necessarily move away from the existing use cases as a condition of accepting the funds.