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Re:Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acqui... by tepidandroid on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:17PM (#17499448)
I've never understood the appeal of paid password management services like 1password. Is there any benefit to using this over something like KeePassXC + Dropbox?
Re:Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acqui... by throwaway2016a on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:30PM (#17499616)
You can also sync 1Password with Dropbox and avoid a subscription or the cloud service.

It also has a neat feature where it can discover other peers on the network and auto-sync the password for use when the clients are offline.

Overall, the quality of 1Password is amazing and I'm sure that had a lot to do with the fact they get paid to do it to. Open source is great and I don't know if KeePassXC has a revenue model but I personally think my money spent on 1Password was put to good user.

Re:Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acqui... by dabeeeenster on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:27PM (#17499575)
Browser integration tools, mobile apps, shared passwords.
Re:Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acqui... by Nullabillity on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:32PM (#17499632)
Re:Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acqui... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:22PM (#17499500)
Usability. 1Password on my Mac and iPhones with iCloud as backing storage “just works”, and I trust iCloud more than Dropbox for secure storage.

Disclaimer: Using 1Password 5, which was a one time payment.

Re:Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acqui... by 0x7f800000 on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:27PM (#17499576)
KeePassXC and Dropbox "just works," and it works on Windows, macOS, Linux, *BSD, Android, iOS, ...

Dropbox can be swapped out with other storage services.

Re:Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acqui... by msbarnett on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:56PM (#17499905)
> KeePassXC and Dropbox "just works," and it works on Windows, macOS, Linux, *BSD, Android, iOS, ...

At least on iOS, this doesn't appear to be meaningfully true. With 1Password if I have navigated to a site's login page in Safari, all I need to do is hit the 1Password Activity button and it will populate my name and password.

With "Keepass Touch for iOS" my options are either: "You're browsing wrong. If you want to log in to something, use the integrated browser" or "switch apps from safari to Keepass, copy username to clipboard, switch back to Safari, paste username, switch back to Keepass, copy password, switch back to Safari, paste."

No thanks. This is still meaningfully behind in the usability department.

Re:Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acqui... by azinman2 on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:37PM (#17499691)
Why is that? Dropbox has a pretty good record, no?

And ultimately, the point is 1password’s db should be well encrypted so you don’t have to trust the underlying storage.

Re:Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acqui... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:50PM (#17499838)
> Why is that? Dropbox has a pretty good record, no?

Not so much. My creds were leaked in their 2012 breach.

https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/31/dropbox-h...

Re:Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acqui... by azinman2 on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @01:57PM (#17500568)
They’ve been around since 2007 and are an obviously juicy target. To me that’s pretty good.. even companies like google get hacked.... and that breach was 6 years ago? Any major breach since then?
Re:Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acqui... by Nullabillity on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:33PM (#17499648)
> secure storage

The passwords should be encrypted at rest (and are with KeePassXC), so Dropbox' (or iCloud's, for that matter) security is irrelevant.

Re:Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acqui... by latexr on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:46PM (#17499790)
> Using 1Password 5, which was a one time payment.

Version 6 was a free upgrade.