Cryptopathic: The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on

Re:Cryptopathic: The situation at LastPass may be worse than... by noduerme on Saturday December 24, 2022 @05:44AM (#34115687)

[edit] I guess that's true. I'm not sure who their users are, but obviously not people overly concerned about security. [/edit]

Just because I think it's funny - every time I visit my dad (who's in his 80s) he regales me with his startup ideas. "Why don't you build something that I can put on my glasses so when I lose them I can find them? Whoever invents that would be a billionaire." I say, "Yeah dad, they have that."

"Why don't they make it so I don't have to remember passwords for all these different websites? I could just have one password and it would remember it for everything."

I think I've explained at least a dozen times why I think third party trust is a bad idea; I've had to really refine it down to the level of explaining this to a six year old.

But the salient point here is that even my dad never signed up for LastPass. So who the fuck is signing up for LastPass?

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Re:Cryptopathic: The situation at LastPass may be worse than... by riffraff on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:19AM (#34116176)

Companies. It is to convenient to use a shared password manager to share passwords within a group of people or some such.

Also techies have been telling non-techies "use a password manager!" for years, and people fail to evaluate one solution or the other.

My brother in law (a non technical person) was telling my wife last year how good LastPass was for him!

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