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I don't get the hate. I've been a LastPass user for 5 years and it works for me most of the time. I've dabbled in 1Password, Chrome native password management
by givehimagun 8y ago
I don't get the hate. I've been a LastPass user for 5 years and it works for me most of the time. I've dabbled in 1Password, Chrome native password management, Firefox native, random Hacker News password manager recommendations. LastPass...still the best off...AND I got my brother and dad to use them and get excited about password safety.
What's so terrible about people using better and better passwords? It's not perfect but I am so much happier with my dad using LastPass versus the shitty password strategy he had before...it was post-it note password management.
- jrockway 8y agoYeah, I also think it's interesting. I have been using LastPass forever and use 1password for work, and LastPass seems a lot easier to use for me. Both are better than using "password" as your password. I will admit that I don't store my Google password in any password manager. That is the root of trust for everything, so I remember the password and use 2FA. The other accounts aren't as important.
- telesilla 8y agoI live in fear of forgetting my Google password (although I have several locations where my backup codes are stored) so I broke it into several parts and stored them with innocuous sounding names like "sister's birthday" and "plumber's contact info", but using a poem I know well as the phrase key. The times I've needed to refresh my memory it was very easy for me to retrieve it.
- auslander 8y ago> ..my Google password in any password manager. That is the root of trust for everything Why? Google is an Ad company...
- zaphirplane 8y agoGmail. Reset password to almost any account via reset password Same is true for any email provider
- vnnkov 8y agoBecause usually Gmail is the place through which we can restore any other account.
- auslander 8y agoGoogle for people getting blocked by Google ;) And there is nothing you can do.
- astrodust 8y agoLastPass on Windows doesn't stand out as being as shockingly ugly or ill-conceived as it does on macOS or iOS. It just sort of blends in with a lot of the undesigned applications that make up the Windows ecosystem. That doesn't mean it isn't ugly. People deserve better.
- Kiro 8y agoIt's still ugly though.
- astrodust 8y agoWhen I got to use the web version I thought it was a joke. Even Slashdot back in the day had more style and grace. LassPass is ugly in a way that makes Oracle's Java download page look well-styled: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/ind...
- mannykannot 8y ago> What's so terrible about people using better and better passwords? This is a complete red herring - it's an argument for using password managers in general, not LastPass in particular. The issues here are whether it is being done in a way that unnecessarily compromises those better passwords.
- astrodust 8y agoThere's nothing wrong with the idea of password managers, even physical ones might work for some people, but LastPass is just such a lazy, ugly, clunky implementation of one. One organization I worked with accidentally created a password manager and it looked better than LastPass. Since it grew to become a huge security risk it got migrated to LastPass, which was barely useable and, at that time, got hacked, so that's a plus, and then migrated to 1Password the instant they added group vaults.
- zapzupnz 8y ago> It's not perfect but I think it's fine to enjoy a product, but it's also good to recognise when something could be better. Anything can be better.