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Having not used anything by Logmein or heard much about them, what's the reasoning behind wanting to jump ship asap? Are they just bad at running a company or

by koyote 11y ago

Having not used anything by Logmein or heard much about them, what's the reasoning behind wanting to jump ship asap? Are they just bad at running a company or are you scared they will sell your data or similar?

bargl 11y ago
Just based on the bad things everyone else is saying about them, I have to do some research and see if they are a good or crap company. They just have a lot of power regarding my passwords, and they are an unknown to me, but , in the other thread they were seriously disliked. Edit: I read some of the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359491 and most of them have bad things to say about LogMeIn.
h4waii 11y ago
Because you can't buy trust through an acquisition. You build trust, you don't transfer it through a merger.
- MaxPower9 11y ago
  This is 100% spot on. And when it comes to password mgmt, trust is everything.
vacri 11y ago
LogMeIn is used by those phone scammers who ring up and say "We have detected a Windows Virus on your machine and are here to help". They then convince the mark to let them start a session, then surreptitiously download data from their machine using a back channel. (LogMeIn lets you share screens, but also access the filesystem in another panel and the other side can't see). When you complain to LogMeIn and give them the details of the scammer, they couldn't give a rat's arse and just ignore you. Those kind of ethics do not belong with the owners of a password vault. Source: Experience trying to report a bad actor.
- e40 11y ago
  I know the popular thing is to blame LogMeIn, but it would be very expensive to chase down the scammers. And, law enforcement is very likely to not give a shit, too. So, if the did what you said, likely it would be wasted effort.
  - vacri 11y ago
    "Thank you for the information, we will investigate/confirm, cancel their account, put them on a watchlist" would have done. I'm not after prison time, I'm after LogMeIn not allowing their service to be used by identifiable criminals.

by koyote 11y ago

bargl 11y ago

Just based on the bad things everyone else is saying about them, I have to do some research and see if they are a good or crap company. They just have a lot of power regarding my passwords, and they are an unknown to me, but , in the other thread they were seriously disliked. Edit: I read some of the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359491 and most of them have bad things to say about LogMeIn.

h4waii 11y ago

Because you can't buy trust through an acquisition. You build trust, you don't transfer it through a merger.

MaxPower9 11y ago
This is 100% spot on. And when it comes to password mgmt, trust is everything.

vacri 11y ago

LogMeIn is used by those phone scammers who ring up and say "We have detected a Windows Virus on your machine and are here to help". They then convince the mark to let them start a session, then surreptitiously download data from their machine using a back channel. (LogMeIn lets you share screens, but also access the filesystem in another panel and the other side can't see). When you complain to LogMeIn and give them the details of the scammer, they couldn't give a rat's arse and just ignore you. Those kind of ethics do not belong with the owners of a password vault. Source: Experience trying to report a bad actor.

e40 11y ago
I know the popular thing is to blame LogMeIn, but it would be very expensive to chase down the scammers. And, law enforcement is very likely to not give a shit, too. So, if the did what you said, likely it would be wasted effort.
- vacri 11y ago
  "Thank you for the information, we will investigate/confirm, cancel their account, put them on a watchlist" would have done. I'm not after prison time, I'm after LogMeIn not allowing their service to be used by identifiable criminals.