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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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world
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    Why I use KeyPass instead of entrusting everything to a 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? 🤣

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      It’s funny you don’t think that could happen to them too. Such confidence.

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        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?

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          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.

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            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.

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            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.

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              there’ll be a dozen different forks before you know it.

              Aren’t there already?

          • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            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.

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              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.