> not something like LastPass
Why? Friends have found LastPass to be pretty reliable and user friendly so far.
Why? Friends have found LastPass to be pretty reliable and user friendly so far.
Also, they're proprietary software. Password security is too important to entrust to proprietary software.
Is LastPass going to protect you against sophisticated State, or even potentially Corporate attackers? Maybe not. Will it protect you against random hacks and insecure sites better than just reusing the same password that you can remember? Yes.
I generally agree though that this is an area where open source software is preferable. I'm also really intrigued by the work Keybase is doing and hope that it might spur some interesting solutions for web auth as well.
but using keepass does protect you in the case that lastpass' servers get compromised into serving malicious javascript.