Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024

Post by bdeshi » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 11:11 AM UTC

thesuitonym wrote: post #642

afavour wrote: post #579

Normally I’m conflicted when a big tech company comes to stomp on a market of smaller app makers but the password manager industry has left me with little sympathy. Years ago I bought 1Password via a one off payment and set it up to sync via my iCloud Drive. It all worked great. Then they took VC investment and quickly every new feature was locked behind a subscription gate. I switched to Bitwarden. Then they took VC…

>and you could never use a third party storage service with BW AFAIK You can run your own BW server, or at least you could as of a few years ago. It's not well documented, but it was doable. The only reason I don't use BW is because the iOS app doesn't locally cache passwords, and I didn't want to open up my home network or set up a VPN just for a bitwarden server.

Post by Friedduck » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 2:14 PM UTC

Post by the_lucifer » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 10:05 PM UTC

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What’s the problem with it exactly? I’m using it on iPad, macOS, iOS and windows 10 and 11. Seems per much the same as it’s always been. I’ve got the family using it too. Just curious what issues other people are experiencing.

It's very much a "death by a thousand cuts" situation - I'm not a fan of the removal of 1Password mini which was my primary interaction with 1Password, especially for the common workflow of password generation/account lookup. It seems their focus is to drive this into the browser extension but that doesn't cover all of my use cases - I very often need to generate a login password _outside_ the context of a browser an…

Post by shmerl » Fri, Jun 14, 2024, 2:05 AM UTC

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I wouldn't look for any excuses for someone who is as often nasty as Apple is.

Sounds like this is a personal problem.

Post by pmontra » Fri, Jun 14, 2024, 8:55 AM UTC

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It’s not that the gp is trying to avoid being secure. It’s that for a service that you only have a need for, a few times a year, mandating 2FA is an unnecessary hassle that can lead to user frustration. I’ve experienced the same with Gitlab. I rarely use Gitlab and don’t have anything important hosted there but when a project I was a member of enabled 2FA for all contributors, it made my Gitlab account completely fru…

True, but the alternative is that people with valuable projects to secure don't do that (because they aren't forced to), and lose things. That said, the sign-in flow with a Passkey and BitWarden is great. Click "sign in with a passkey", click "confirm", done. No username, password, or 2FA required. One day I hope BitWarden implement my suggestion of not requiring that second click if you only have one key.