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How mature is Bitwarden? I know its open source, but IIRC the business address for Bitwarden is a random house in Jacksonville, Florida? And that was only foun
by nytesky 7y ago
How mature is Bitwarden? I know its open source, but IIRC the business address for Bitwarden is a random house in Jacksonville, Florida? And that was only found on Reddit or something.
If its open source thats great, but most people are not building the clients for iOS and MacOS at home. We trust the builds that they host to be true to the source.
1password lists its physical address on its home page (and I think every page).
Lastpass is part of Logmein, an established tech company in Boston.
I'm very wary of a password manager trojan horse, similar to the Kaspersky incident.
- Deimorz 7y agoAs far as I know, Bitwarden is a one-person company run by a guy who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. So the business address being a random house there would be exactly what I'd expect.
- nytesky 7y agoI guess it would be nice to have some background on him then, so we can be sure its not a front. I would expect he actually reads Hacker News, so please provide us your backstory, much appreciated.
- jorvi 7y agoAFAIK he is involved in one of the BSDs (free or open) in some capacity, so you're not putting your security in the hands of some random Joe NPMbro
- h1d 7y agoI understand the concern too. It's also raised at their official forum but no reply from the author. https://community.bitwarden.com/t/who-is-hosting-bitwarden/1614 https://community.bitwarden.com/t/who-is-hosting-bitwarden/1... The author did take an interview in 2018. https://opensource.com/article/18/3/behind-scenes-bitwarden https://opensource.com/article/18/3/behind-scenes-bitwarden