1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.
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Why I use KeyPass – which is FOSS – instead of entrusting everything to a privately-run paid website which can turn against everyone at anytime.
edit: to that wiseacre below, do you think it’s better to go back to passwords in a notepad? 🤣
KeePass is great, but it needs multi-user, granular permissions and conflict resolution on sync. Sharing with multiple simul users is like trying to work on stone tablets.
It’s funny you don’t think that could happen to them too. Such confidence.
You know keepass is a local keystore, right? There is no “them”.
Unless you’re the one literally writing the program. It is being developed by other people who at any point in time could have issues. Just saying not saying they do now but it can certainly happen.
You think if the developer bails out, the software will magically disappear from everywhere, leaving you with no way of recovery whatsoever?
Let’s say they decide to pull the plug. Everything you have that’s already running will keep running. Code can be forked (in fact with keepass, it already happened). Data can be exported after the fact. Other software can actually open keepass database file.
You really don’t see the difference between this and “the server stopped sending you your own data, oops”?
Well you better not use any software ever then, never know what ‘can certainly happen’. Get a grip.
Its GPL licensed, there’ll be a dozen different forks before you know it.
Aren’t there already?
Yep. When I say “I use Keepass” what I actually mean is “I use KeepassXC, Macpass, KeepassDX, etc. depending on which OS I’m on at the time” and AFAIK none of those are actually made by the original Keepass developer.
The passwords are saved into a vault file. You can choose a different software that is capable of opening the vault. I use keepassXC for example. there’s some variety of programs that can open this filetype, on many different platforms.
You can fork it
You don’t auto update it, and you store the keys locally, and if you need passwords on a device you use a VPN to access them, I’m not to concerned about updating my manager I’m more concerned about my VPN 😂
But I get what your saying.
They distrust anyone to keep their passwords except to write their own program to manage theirs, or happen to take blind pride in supposed eidetic memory.
1Password is a paid service. The money given to for the service can go to organizations the user doesn’t agree with.
KeePass is free.
How is it the same?