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Proton Pass: Open-Source and Encrypted Password Manager App

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Re: Proton Pass: Open-Source and Encrypted Password Manager App

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It's amazing how many new products Proton manages to make while still barely supporting their VPN on Linux. On the one hand, nice work proton team. On the other, you lost a VPN customer today.

Just a thought, maybe their linux market share is just negligible? If it's not a worthwhile investment of resources, why do it?

For a privacy focused techie type customer base and also journalist types I think $distro/gnu/linux support is essential

Re: Proton Pass: Open-Source and Encrypted Password Manager App

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The main advantage is that it can also set up an ‘alias’ which is a pseudo email address which forwards to your real email address. Really, I think the alias feature should be added into protonmail and removed from proton pass. Bitwarden UI has the edge though, imo.

Bitwarden can also do this, and supports multiple providers

Wow. I have been with Bitwarden for a few years and never new this was an option.

Re: Proton Pass: Open-Source and Encrypted Password Manager App

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I'm a bit skeptical about having one more solution in that space, considering that 1) password managers built in OSs and web browsers are becoming better and better (for example the new version of iCloud Keychain) and 2) passkeys are coming.

1 there really requires you to be all-in on an ecosystem though. Have an iPhone but use Windows/Linux? Doesn't really matter how good iCloud is if you can't get it to sync your passwords easily to half of your devices. I suspect Passkeys will be a similar issue that further pushes people towards single-ecosystem life, unless I'm missing something.

Re: Proton Pass: Open-Source and Encrypted Password Manager App

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Wasn't there some article or something claiming that this company was a NSA honeypot or something? Or am I imagining that.

No. Nothing of the sort. They were forced by law to reveal IP addresses of some key individuals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProtonMail#Compliance_with_S...

https://proton.me/legal/transparency

Re: Proton Pass: Open-Source and Encrypted Password Manager App

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If you can cite some sources, I will be very interested to read all about it. I trust Proton with most of my crucial e-mails(bank, insurance, govt services) and use a cheap alternative for personal things. If it is really a NSA honeypot, I'd rather let M$ or GOOG have my e-mails anyways.

No real sources but hn comments, but hey if the river sounds.. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... The NSA/CIA are just too good at hijacking swiss -neutral- companies for their own bidding

A circular reference to baseless conjecture is not a source.

Re: Proton Pass: Open-Source and Encrypted Password Manager App

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Wasn't there some article or something claiming that this company was a NSA honeypot or something? Or am I imagining that.

You might be thinking of https://encryp.ch/blog/disturbing-facts-about-protonmail/

edit: I'd like to inject a reminder that protonmail doesn't encrypt all of your mailbox contents. From their privacy policy:

"we have access to the following email metadata: sender and recipient email addresses, the IP address incoming messages originated from, attachment name, message subject, and message sent and received times"

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