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What makes you trust LastPass to spread your database to your devices more? And what makes Dropbox so bad?

• MichaelGG 11y ago
  Dropbox runs a binary on your machine; that's enough to suspect them. Stick with an open source password manager and an open sync service (S3 plus a script? Or a third party client like Arq).
  • 746F7475 11y ago
    Yeah... I'm not in the RMS camp
    • MichaelGG 11y ago
      Nothing to do with software freedom, everything to do with security/auditability.
      • flashman 11y ago
        Yeah, with Dropbox software running on your machine, you not only have to trust them not to snoop on you, you have to trust their non-auditable code to be ~perfect~ against exploitation by others.
        • 746F7475 11y ago
          Unless you actually read through and understand your open source alternative line by line you aren't really running anything safer Of course there is the argument that since it's open source it's safe since someone has "audited" it, but many times that's not true. And even then unless you spend a lot of time trying to break it so you understand it completely you are way better off just writing your own solution, but that takes time and effort