But this would mean I would be managing two separate data bases. Strongbox has quite the plethora of pre filled keywords for exactly this kind of thing.
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Yeah, as a security professional my advice would be to update if you can. Old and unmaintained software is a massive security risk.
Additionally, in my own research, 1Password is clearly the best password manager you can use. It has a third factor to its key generation that nobody else does, resulting in a significantly more secure encrypted vault.
This is one of the major advantages. I've been comparing 1PW vs. Bitwarden. I like both and both have pluses and minuses but 1PW is seemingly a superior product
I agree, mostly because of that third factor, and it’s easy to use CLI integration. Never store tokens in dotfiles again!
I would use this quite happily if they would allow you to do one very basic thing: change the title name of an entry!
I used to be a heavy user of 1Password, but for personal use have since switched over to iCloud Keychain and periodically export all my credentials into Strongbox.
iCloud Keychain performs the best on my Apple devices. Strongbox gives me a secure backup copy of that data that I can store on non-Apple infrastructure. And because Strongbox uses the KeePass format, I can access this data cross platform if/when needed.
iCloud Keychain performs the best on my Apple devices. Strongbox gives me a secure backup copy of that data that I can store on non-Apple infrastructure. And because Strongbox uses the KeePass format, I can access this data cross platform if/when needed.
Doesn't work on as many platforms for one. Ties you pretty tightly to Apple's ecosystem. 1Password has multi-user ediditons so spouse and kids can have own repo AND you can have shared repos.
Nobody should be using LastPass, there's been too many security breaches. They've kept security issues secret for too long before making them public.
1Password has more support for different platforms. Also 1Password just isn't a password vault, it's more.
↑ "I expect the app to be perfect and never need updates. I expect developers to work for free after my initial purchase."
These are the kind of people who don't tip because "they're already getting paid!"
↑ I could not agree more. Paying to keep my passwords secure is worth every penny.
Yet everyone was quite ok with it prior to companies chosing to only offer subscription models. "The kind of people"..wow. You don't know anything about me, my experiences or uses. Such a blanket comment is quite presumptuous and frankly very rude.
I am still running 7 because I was tentative about the conversion to Electron but it has been a while and I don't hear any horror stories so I guess I will upgrade.
On subscriptions... I hear you and I rail against subscriptions here on MR quite a bit, here is my take on paying a sub for 1password and other apps like it:
Take something like a word processor (word, pages, etc.) when they are released, as part of a normal software cycle, the dev only needs to worry about 3 things: bugs, major os releases and new features. Most only need to do this for a single OS, Microsoft being the exception.
Then you have something like 1password. They need to release their app, on multiple OSs and browsers, then between releases make sure that none of their supported OSs or browsers "break" with updates. So at anytime Firefox may break between major releases, the next day Safari, the next Brave, etc. Then of course they also need to worry about bugs, major OS releases and lastly, new features.
I acknowledge I might just be jumping through some hoops to justify this choice but I feel the maintenance of an app like 1Password is more difficult than a more static app, like a work processor, therefore it justifies the sub model. There is absolutely no reason to have a subscription for something like Office365, those apps are really static and I could live out the rest of my days using Office 2000 if it was still supported. The average user probably has not seen a useful new feature in 20 years.
I totally agree with this.
I really resent
I'm pretty hazy on what the exact complaint is with that. I guess the fear is that a cross-platform design will sacrifice the finer points of Mac UI? I'm usually pretty sensitive to that kind of thing and 1Password's latest interfaces work quite smoothly on my Mac.
I may have fallen prey to fear mongering. I had read several complaints about the replacement of native apps with Electron apps and folks experiencing performance and memory issues and yes, a lack of UI refinement. I was ready to jump ship to Minimalist but I am still clinging to cross platform for now.
I'm confused about this as 1password 8 isn't listed in the App Store has it just come out or is from their site only?
Also I get that folks don't like subscription model but those complaining do you have Apple Music or Spotify etc as would be hypocritical complain about 1password subscription if you do it with other products
Also I get that folks don't like subscription model but those complaining do you have Apple Music or Spotify etc as would be hypocritical complain about 1password subscription if you do it with other products
At the risk of jumping off topic I feel there is a huge difference between AM, Spotify, Netflix, etc. where your subscription is really a rental fee for the content and subscriptions for something like Microsoft Office which I feel is a mostly static app.
The only reason MS switched Office365 to a sub is because they cannot get people to pay for upgrades. Microsoft does not offer any upgrade features that justify paying an upgrade fee. I could still be happily using Office 2000, there has not been a single feature upgrade that is required for my workflow and while that is personal I would bet that most users fall into this category.
One of the little perks I cannot wait for with retirement is never using MS Office again! Its just sooooo far off. 😭
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Yes it’s slightly different but the principle is the same. It would be cheaper to buy the music or film I own outright than renting it for the rest of my life.
Yeah I agree about excel. It’s never introduced more features for me other than design improvements to modernise it.
Yep. I know people are VERY against subscriptions, but if it pays the employees well enough to have passion to work there, and they can keep up with the security of their product, I’m all for it. I’m paying for a family account right now.
I agree about Office itself. I mostly pay for Office 365 Family for the 5TB of OneDrive storage. But the applications would be just fine only getting ordinary security patching. No new features in the past 10 years have delivered any new value to the product.
Music and film/TV are different because there's always new content. If you only listen to/watch the same content for years and years, buying it outright is unquestionably better. But paying for a subscription can make sense when you're consuming new music all the time -- a $10/mo subscription would easily pay for itself just by listening to a new album or two every month.
Which is that? I have been looking and everything I've found looks like scams.
A friend of mine was in "password hell" (he could never remember his passwords, even though he had some written down -- in MORSE CODE!).
So, using Pages, I created a very simple "vault" file for him.
Pages lets you encrypt a WP file with a password.
So, I created a Pages WP file and inserted a simple "table".
Here's a copy of it:
(the password protection has been de-activated, to re-activate you can do so in Pages' file menu)
Granted, this is just another "Fishrrman simple-minded solution™".
But it works well for my friend.
I welcome suggestions as to how this file could be improved.
So, using Pages, I created a very simple "vault" file for him.
Pages lets you encrypt a WP file with a password.
So, I created a Pages WP file and inserted a simple "table".
Here's a copy of it:
(the password protection has been de-activated, to re-activate you can do so in Pages' file menu)
Granted, this is just another "Fishrrman simple-minded solution™".
But it works well for my friend.
I welcome suggestions as to how this file could be improved.
The idea that you need to use a subscription-supported password manager in order for secure access to passwords across multiple devices, is fundamentally flawed. I realize that ifxf didn't exactly say this, but many people believe this.