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we decided that Bitwarden is the best choice for our company, and we’ve begun the process of migrating from LastPass to Bitwarden. whois lastpass.com LogMeIn, Inc. whois bitwarden.com WhoisGuard, Inc.

What is your point?

WHOIS Privacy on the website wasn't a consideration on the table the company used. Maybe it's not important in 2018, or is enabled by default, or an oversight, or they're using the spam filtering. But:

It’s at the bottom of the page.

So why the discrepancy?

Re: Evaluation of five password managers

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In the end I've just been using the Unix pass password manager [1].

It's just cobbling together of GPG and git with shell scripts but it works like a normal git repository so you get all your synchronization, from that, your security from GPG which are all things I know and trust without introducing other components that I don't know / understand.

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org/

Re: Evaluation of five password managers

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> Mac OS, Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS ... full functionality can’t be dependent on an app which is only available on Mac OS and/or Windows. In other words, lack of full Linux support is a show-stopper for us. This ruled out 1Password... ...Huh? 1Password supports all of those platforms (including Linux) https://1password.com/downloads/linux/

Unfortunately, 1Password may find its engineers compromised by their government, by virtue of being Australian.

I thought they were based out of Toronto, Canada.

Re: Evaluation of five password managers

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post #52

In the end I've just been using the Unix pass password manager [1]. It's just cobbling together of GPG and git with shell scripts but it works like a normal git repository so you get all your synchronization, from that, your security from GPG which are all things I know and trust without introducing other components that I don't know / understand. [1] https://www.passwordstore.org/

For developers/tech-savvy people it is more or less perfect. I love the fact that it is based on git giving you a history and great control over synchronization. I use it to store all kinds of things such as passwords and files containing environment variables that can be sourced directly from the output of pass (source https://github.com/mssun/passforios

Re: Evaluation of five password managers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you can use Google Chrome on iOS, although you'll get worse performance since Apple doesn't allow third party browsers to take advantage of Javascript optimizations. So, I'd say the point stands! You'd potentially be using a worse web browser in exchange for access to your passwords!

> although you'll get worse performance since Apple doesn't allow third party browsers to take advantage of Javascript optimizations This hasn't been true since iOS 8 with WKWebView[0]. [0] http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/06/ios-8-javascript-performa...

What's the real deal breaker for me is that I can't use iOS adblocking with 3-rdparty browsers.

Re: Evaluation of five password managers

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For me an important selling point of 1Password was that their software looks like native Windows software and native iOS software while Bitwarden is just Chrome wrapper or something like that for desktop and C# for mobile and I don't want to support that kind of cross-platform software.

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Has anyone gone through the process of switching? I use Keeper for personal stuff, and I suppose there's always the chance to switch if one turns out to be technically or politically much superior, but there are dozens and dozens of passwords in there to transfer...

I switched from LastPass to 1Password. It was a quick and simple export -> import process.

As a current LastPass user, what prompted you to switch?

Re: Evaluation of five password managers

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> Mac OS, Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS ... full functionality can’t be dependent on an app which is only available on Mac OS and/or Windows. In other words, lack of full Linux support is a show-stopper for us. This ruled out 1Password... ...Huh? 1Password supports all of those platforms (including Linux) https://1password.com/downloads/linux/

It really doesn't. I'm a full time linux user and I can tell you the support from both lastpass and 1password is abysmal. I have to copy and paste my passwords from both of those platforms using their half-baked browser plugins that rarely work with linux clipboards.

I run Arch full time with i3, and I have no issues with lastpass. I use both browser plugins, and lastpass-cli which I have had no issues with[0]

[0]: https://github.com/lastpass/lastpass-cli

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