4 ms·

I've been looking to migrate off LastPass to Bitwarden or KeePassXC, but can't decide: 1. First off, who's to say LastPass will actually delete my data when I

by tasuki 4y ago

I've been looking to migrate off LastPass to Bitwarden or KeePassXC, but can't decide: 1. First off, who's to say LastPass will actually delete my data when I delete my account? Could I in practice be increasing my exposure by starting to use something different? 2. Bitwarden: They look cool but "In September 2022, the company announced $100M series B financing". In my experience, usually, financing = bad. 3. KeePassXC: I'm afraid the UX will be worse. But hey it's in my operating system repos, so perhaps I should just give it a try?

tornato7 4y ago
Why no 1Password on your list?
- lepetitchef 4y ago
  +1 for 1Password and Bitwarden. One is good at UI, one is simply yet more affordable.
- tasuki 4y ago
  I just looked at the two that seemed to be the most mentioned in my circles (that'd be HN, I'm afraid...)
- cmsj 4y ago
  1Password has the same fundamental flaw that LastPass does - they insist on hosting your vault on their servers. That is a bad idea and you shouldn't use a service with that requirement. Use something you can self host, or have the choice of DropBox/iCloud/etc for syncing.
sillyapple 4y ago
I've been very happy with Bitwarden. If things go south because of getting funding there are some good forks of the server you can self-host (vaultwarden).
- CheBuzz 4y ago
  Another happy vaultwarden self-hoster here. It requires almost not maintenance from me once I got everything setup.
deleted 4y ago
[deleted]
neurostimulant 4y ago
> Bitwarden: They look cool but "In September 2022, the company announced $100M series B financing". In my experience, usually, financing = bad. You can self-host bitwarden using the opensource implementation of bitwarden server. It includes everything, even the pro features, and supports multiple accounts for the whole family for example: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
goosesanta 4y ago
Just use keepassxc and be master of your keys. You have to move forward. Every 6 months I hear about a breach at lastpass. I assumed only clueless normies were left on it, but I guess their efforts to blockade data exports were effective.
- tasuki 4y ago
  Perhaps I'm a clueless normie :) The KeePassXC browser extension doesn't have exactly stellar reviews. As for KeePassXC itself, I'm a little hesitant to use something that makes the UX so painful I have to copy the usernames and passwords. That said, switching from LastPass to Bitwarden seems a little pointless: yes Bitwarden is a younger company and perhaps hasn't managed to mess up their product yet, but knowing life it's just a matter of time and then I'm at a worse place than where I've started. > Every 6 months I hear about a breach at lastpass. Have any led to leakage of users' passwords?
  - tasuki 4y ago
    Ooh there's this thing called Auto-Type in KeePassXC. I am a clueless normie after all... And it appears to be customizable how the Auto-Type types... meaning I don't have to copy-paste anything. Well gee... Wrt Bitwarden, yes I know I can self-host a server, but, managing servers is a bit of a pain, especially for things which clearly need no server.

by tasuki 4y ago

tornato7 4y ago

Why no 1Password on your list?

lepetitchef 4y ago
+1 for 1Password and Bitwarden. One is good at UI, one is simply yet more affordable.
tasuki 4y ago
I just looked at the two that seemed to be the most mentioned in my circles (that'd be HN, I'm afraid...)
cmsj 4y ago
1Password has the same fundamental flaw that LastPass does - they insist on hosting your vault on their servers. That is a bad idea and you shouldn't use a service with that requirement. Use something you can self host, or have the choice of DropBox/iCloud/etc for syncing.

sillyapple 4y ago

I've been very happy with Bitwarden. If things go south because of getting funding there are some good forks of the server you can self-host (vaultwarden).

CheBuzz 4y ago
Another happy vaultwarden self-hoster here. It requires almost not maintenance from me once I got everything setup.

deleted 4y ago

[deleted]

neurostimulant 4y ago

> Bitwarden: They look cool but "In September 2022, the company announced $100M series B financing". In my experience, usually, financing = bad. You can self-host bitwarden using the opensource implementation of bitwarden server. It includes everything, even the pro features, and supports multiple accounts for the whole family for example: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

goosesanta 4y ago

Just use keepassxc and be master of your keys. You have to move forward. Every 6 months I hear about a breach at lastpass. I assumed only clueless normies were left on it, but I guess their efforts to blockade data exports were effective.

tasuki 4y ago
Perhaps I'm a clueless normie :) The KeePassXC browser extension doesn't have exactly stellar reviews. As for KeePassXC itself, I'm a little hesitant to use something that makes the UX so painful I have to copy the usernames and passwords. That said, switching from LastPass to Bitwarden seems a little pointless: yes Bitwarden is a younger company and perhaps hasn't managed to mess up their product yet, but knowing life it's just a matter of time and then I'm at a worse place than where I've started. > Every 6 months I hear about a breach at lastpass. Have any led to leakage of users' passwords?
- tasuki 4y ago
  Ooh there's this thing called Auto-Type in KeePassXC. I am a clueless normie after all... And it appears to be customizable how the Auto-Type types... meaning I don't have to copy-paste anything. Well gee... Wrt Bitwarden, yes I know I can self-host a server, but, managing servers is a bit of a pain, especially for things which clearly need no server.