Bob Koure
1 min readJan 2, 2023

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Lastpass IS excellent - if you compare it to no password manager at all. Back when LP was acquired by private equity, I went looking for alternatives. Almost all PMs other than Kaspersky and a couple of others do a better job of encrypting the database (the blob that gets passed to your browser add-in). That 'blob' is what gets stolen if the central repository gets hacked. If it's really well encrypted and the service notifies you promptly, then you can change passwords without the bad guys having time to break your encryption. LP failed in both blob encryption and promptness.

1Password is good. So is Bitwarden. I considered both. Bitwarden is open source and can be self hosted (those 'blobs' come from a server I control), so I picked that one. But neither is a bad choice. As I remember, the 1P UI was better. As the Brits say, it's horses for courses. And I'd add that LP isn't even in the race...

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Bob Koure
Bob Koure

Written by Bob Koure

Retired software architect, statistical analyst, hotel mgr, bike racer, distance swimmer. Photographer. Amateur historian. Avid reader. Home cook. Never-FBer

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