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Re: Password Management ?



On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:38:19PM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Olivier BATARD <obatard@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Envoyé de mon iPhone
> >
> > Anyone knows an offline tool like lastpass ?
> 
> 
> LastPass is online and KeePass is offline. Honestly, I would trust KeePass
> over LastPass.

<shrug>

> KeePass is opensource, freely available for multiple OS's and is actively
> maintained. LastPass is a commercial business, they offer a free and
> premium service, just remember that if they go all premium, you might
> have to pay to get your data back from them.[1]

Not true; One has the ability to export their data at any time, now.
 
> I'm a bit paranoid, but I go to great lengths to secure my KeePass DB. I
> have an sD card with a TrueCrypt volume on it, inside that lives KeePass
> in portable mode, with it's database. Which is also encrypted.
> 
> [1] The reason I point this out is when they bought XMarks recently, they
> entertained the idea among the XMarks users about a premium only
> service, I know the friends that I have gotten to use XMarks and I voted no.
> XMarks essentially remained the same, but that can change at any time.

Anything can change at anytime including an OSS project.


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