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LastPass is such utter trash.

Among their many failures, I am still shocked that the notes section for each password was not encrypted. All kinds of assumed-safe info will be in there from secret question answers to former passwords and account numbers. What fool of a project manager pushed for that?

I don’t recommend lastpass but notes were encrypted. This stemmed from an original miscommunication from a CS rep to a customer before it blew up but was later corrected.

Independently verified because we can’t take Lastpass at their word: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lastpass/comments/zzz5x4/notes_are_...

That was my understanding as well, but there were definitely unencrypted portions like URL. I assume for sharing purposes.

Yeah you’re right, URL was unencrypted along with some others.

Doesn’t seem critical if we’re talking Facebook and twitter but becomes problematic with human rights orgs and the like.

The justification was that it was used to match login fields against vault items. I’m no crypto expert but it seemed flimsy to me

> we need that extra 300msec of speed, Jim! Web metrics are all that matter!!!!11one

I agree. I’m looking for a better alternative. Been putting it off, any recommendations?

I'm using Keypass with Syncthing which is really great (both on Android and PC), but I need something that can properly auto-fill forms.

Lastpass wasn't great at doing this automatically, but Keypass cannot do this automatically at all.

Any recommendations?

I run the Kee extension/plugin for autofilling with KeePass, works without issue in firefox (I have tried briefly in chrome and it seems okay there too, haven't used it nearly as much though).

Been loving 1Password. If your work has 1Password Enterprise, you can get a free separate personal account.

That is true for most services now, including Lastpass and BW (iirc).

Depends on your requirements but 1Password and BitWarden are decent.

BitWarden works ok. I run the rust reimplementation of the server on a lan with no incoming port forwards.

The main problem is that I can’t add or edit passwords when I am not home.

I’d love another, similar, open source solution that used a crdt to merge offline database edits.

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