Good Bye LastPass Free?(vice.com)
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Good Bye LastPass Free?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkd88v/lastpass-free-accounts-will-now-work-on-either-your-phone-or-computer-not-both
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I think that means the free version of LastPass is virtually useless in this day and age.
What are the alternatives? 1Password? Dashlane?
Original title: "LastPass Free Accounts Will Now Work on Either Your Phone or Computer, Not Both"
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LastPass has essentially put a gun to the head of its free users. It has probably gained much traction, by offering a free service. Yet now, as it isn't actually FOSS, they are able to make a change to its model you can do nothing about. It leaves you with a few options, all worse than the current situation:
- If you want to continue using the service, as you have, you must start paying up.
- If you wish to continue using LastPass for free, you can only continue using it on either computers or tablets. A completely unnecessary barrier simply meant to on-ramp as you as a paying customer, or get you off the platform as a freeloader.
- If you wish to continue using another pass manager service for free, you will have to likely remake all your passwords there, and spend possibly hours or days changing all your account credentials over to this.
They have employed a strategy of duress on existing free customers, to make them pay. With FOSS, this would be possible too, to be fair, however, there's an easy remedy. Existing users could choose to continue using the current free software as is since they have access to the code, without this needless feature barrier that was introduced. Any security conscious person, should not use these proprietary closed-source systems in the first place, but this occurrence should clarify why non-FOSS models are absolutely terrible for users, in every possible way...
This is why the pass generator/manager I'm working on, which is very different from existing ones, and instead solely based on cryptographic principles such as crypto HD wallets, rather than vaults, is FOSS.
It's at https://app.srspass.com and under continuous development. I've used a system such as this to handle my accounts for years, and wanted for a while to release it. You don't have to worry about it working on either a phone or computer... it literally works anywhere, as it's a PWA, and it doesn't need to store any of your passwords anywhere, they are deterministically generated based on your inputs.
- If you want to continue using the service, as you have, you must start paying up.
- If you wish to continue using LastPass for free, you can only continue using it on either computers or tablets. A completely unnecessary barrier simply meant to on-ramp as you as a paying customer, or get you off the platform as a freeloader.
- If you wish to continue using another pass manager service for free, you will have to likely remake all your passwords there, and spend possibly hours or days changing all your account credentials over to this.
They have employed a strategy of duress on existing free customers, to make them pay. With FOSS, this would be possible too, to be fair, however, there's an easy remedy. Existing users could choose to continue using the current free software as is since they have access to the code, without this needless feature barrier that was introduced. Any security conscious person, should not use these proprietary closed-source systems in the first place, but this occurrence should clarify why non-FOSS models are absolutely terrible for users, in every possible way...
This is why the pass generator/manager I'm working on, which is very different from existing ones, and instead solely based on cryptographic principles such as crypto HD wallets, rather than vaults, is FOSS.
It's at https://app.srspass.com and under continuous development. I've used a system such as this to handle my accounts for years, and wanted for a while to release it. You don't have to worry about it working on either a phone or computer... it literally works anywhere, as it's a PWA, and it doesn't need to store any of your passwords anywhere, they are deterministically generated based on your inputs.