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LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by james-skemp »

First comment on the blog so far: 'Oh no.'

My first reaction was to chuckle. I wonder how LastPass will change given the new ownership. We switched over to this at work almost a year ago, after trying to determine a password management strategy for years, and it's worked fairly well, although it hasn't sold me on switching from Keepass for personal use.

I'll be interested in what the Hacker News community thinks about this.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by ciaranm »

Wonder if now is the time to look at alternatives, before the service potentially changes.

I hear a lot of good things about 1Password, which seems to work for my iPhone/MacBook. Anyone know if there's a reasonable option for using it on Windows?

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by gtk40 »

bluedino wrote: post #3

I cringed when we got this email since we use LogMeIn Pro at work. For everyone else, I hope they don't butcher the free version like they did with LogMeIn.

As someone who has never used LogMeIn, could you explain what the problems are? I use LastPass pretty extensively (and was thinking of buying a subscription later this month), but have never used LogMeIn.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by mpclark »

These acquisition announcements are always the same, and always get the same sort of comments.

They tell of good fortune for the owners of the thing that has been sold, but never tell the users what's in it for them. And that's usually because there is nothing in it for them.

What am I supposed to be happy about?

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by tmarman »

james-skemp wrote: post #2

First comment on the blog so far: 'Oh no.' My first reaction was to chuckle. I wonder how LastPass will change given the new ownership. We switched over to this at work almost a year ago, after trying to determine a password management strategy for years, and it's worked fairly well, although it hasn't sold me on switching from Keepass for personal use. I'll be interested in what the Hacker News community thinks abou…

As a former Hamachi user and LastPass user/advocate, I had the exact same reaction when I saw this.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by colinplamondon »

This really rubs me the wrong way. Do not like the idea of my password manager bouncing around owners. Or infrastructure changes that new owners often push on the acquired company.

If there's one business I REALLY do not want to be moving about, and I want as little churn as possible for, it's a password manager.

The thing I liked about LastPass was that it seemed like the highly geeky, less startupy approach to password managers, more likely to be run for the long-term, less likely to be at risk of an acquisition.

Going to look into Dashlane.

Re: LogMeIn acquires Lastpass

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Post by yoshamano »

My first reaction to reading the title was "why?"

After reading the article (and then reading it again) I'm not left feeling confident that this is in any way positive for me as a LastPass Premium and Xmarks customer.

In particular the vague line about, "As we become part of the LogMeIn family over the next several months, we’ll be releasing updates to LastPass, introducing new features..." To me, LastPass is feature complete. So either I'm going to have a mind blowing, I never knew I needed that, moment, or more likely some sort of bloated crap is going to get shoe horned into LastPass.

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