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The open-source, "time tested," self-hosted solutions do not check that the website you're trying to paste a password onto is the website you should be pasting
by geofft 8y ago
The open-source, "time tested," self-hosted solutions do not check that the website you're trying to paste a password onto is the website you should be pasting the password onto. That is a real and serious security risk, and the fact that the open-source solutions don't attempt to solve it does not mean it should not be solved.
I think a lot of people feel uncomfortable giving a proprietary product access to their passwords, and feel more comfortable doing the copy-and-paste themselves. But compromising security for better comfort is not a very good strategy.
- gruez 8y ago>The open-source, "time tested," self-hosted solutions do not check that the website you're trying to paste a password onto is the website you should be pasting the password onto Keepass has a third party Firefox extension that does this. Bitwarden is open source and has their own extension that does the same.