Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Parsons Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: ? 1Password Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 11:45:13 -0500 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <211020161230400988%bill@invalid.invalid> <221020160838001835%heron@invalid.invalid> <221020161219148197%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net bPvtNKTx7ArV73NtBHMcaQC/2BAFMXJKCA0xEnyWVtZQxILu1o Cancel-Lock: sha1:IdIXcskiAfMHomWAu2jLxwr4SHM= User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:95915 On 2016-10-22 16:19:14 +0000, nospam said: > In article , Lloyd Parsons > wrote: > >> I use LastPass, didn't care for 1Password for reasons I don't remember. >> The advantage for me is that it is fully cross platform. I have lots >> of tech crap around here with MacOS, iOS, Android, etc, and having a >> single password manager that works on all of them is very handy. > > 1password is cross platform. > > the big problem with lastpass is that your passwords are stored in the > cloud, where hackers could potentially get at them. there's already > been at least one successful attack on lastpass (although they 'claim' > the password database was not affected). With the encryption they use I don't think it is a big issue at all. Opinions differ as usual, of course. -- Lloyd from the Macbook 12"