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I had a really bad experience with an iPhone update and a password storage app. I had been running my iPhone on iOS 8.x. No need to update to 9.x. The day fi
by rebootthesystem 11y ago
I had a really bad experience with an iPhone update and a password storage app.
I had been running my iPhone on iOS 8.x. No need to update to 9.x.
The day finally came when I was forced to allow the update.
Now, without my knowledge the update also enabled automatic updates of apps. All apps were thus updated to their latest versions without my explicit consent.
I chose the app I am using to keep hundreds of account passwords specifically because they DID NOT transmit anything over the internet at the time I got it. I could do what they called "wifi sync" to synchronize and backup my database to the desktop version of the same software running on my PC within the same network.
Well, with the forced update "wifi sync" went away and now the only option is "internet sync". I did not realize this whe the app ran through and synchronized to my PC.
So now the dilema. This fucking company is doing this because they want to sell cloud storage for your data and force you into an annual subscription in order to be able to "internet sync". And, of course, the huge violation of the security of my data which, up until the unauthorized automatic update, had been kept private and never left my network.
Not only do I have to find a new password and data vault that will not try to take ownership of my data and pull a bait-and-switch after, I also need to change every simgle password I have due to my database now being in their cloud.
Unbelievable.
- Sephr 11y agoInstead of relying on proprietary software that is out of your control for storing your passwords (and getting burned like you have described), why not use something open source like KeePass? I don't have an iPhone, but on Android there is KeePass2Android, which is open source and (if you choose to use it as such) offline-only.
- rebootthesystem 11y agoThat's the migration plan when I get the time to move the data over.