• Charlxmagne@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Use keepassxc, bitwarden became proprietary a while ago, I ain’t letting my password manager do a lastpass and make me a vic of crippling identity fraud

    • rockstarmode@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      bitwarden became proprietary a while ago

      I’m interested in hearing more about this. I recall there being a mixup in packaging and people asked a bunch of questions about licensing. But as far as I can tell the client and server code is still available as open source (under various licenses) and the repos are frequently updated.

      This is an honest question, I promise. I haven’t found anything that points to regular users being pushed to anything proprietary, and no new discussions since late 2024.

      • ipitco@lemmy.super.ynh.fr
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        4 hours ago

        Afaik they pushed code that belonged to them and might not entirely be legal to compile yourself due to the code having a different licence. I believe they have 2 things now: the code is still open source, but a part of it is not free to use. The code can still be compiled by using different libraries and I think they support both but it was hard to understand so I don’t really know.

        Also the affected code wasn’t on a super important feature iirc

        I might be completely wrong though

      • BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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        19 hours ago

        … Physically back up your passwords too.

        Every password in your manager should be written in a little book somewhere in case of exactly that. Keep it with your birth certificate and other important documents.

        Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.

        • lemmyknow@lemmy.today
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          4 hours ago

          A PHYSICAL PASSWORD BACK UP??? Are you CRAZY??? What if someone gets ahold of my passwords? Just like that, unencrypted? I don’t live alone. There’s people around me that could find said passwords and access said accounts!!!

      • Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk
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        4 hours ago

        Yea it was mostly meant as a joke, I do use a password manager and individual passwords for everything. My fiancé on the other hand, shes a lost cause, even though I did the complete setup for her she refuses to use it as it requires her to do something different (but I my opinion easier) than just typing the same password everywhere.