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Bitwarden is open source (https://github.com/bitwarden) and was audited by privacytools.io, so I’m in team bitwarden !
It is perfectly integrated with all my devices and browsers, and it’s free to use.
Jup bitwarden is pretty awesome! I use a self hosted vaultwarden. You can link it with the bitwarden browser extensions.
If to choose it will be Keepass 🙂
Same. I even self-host it now, no getting caught up in massive data breaches for me!
I feel way more comfortable with having this one file than relying on some cloud-someone-computer thing. And experience is smooth thanks to Syncthing.
Been using Bitwarden for some time. Really like it.
Question for you since you mentioned how it's integrated with all your devices. I currently do not use a PW manager (I know, shame on me). Let's say I get bitwarden, do I need to go back and change every password on every website to the bitwarden-generated password?
It just seems like I'm "In too deep" in a way where it'll be a pain in the ass to set up.
If you have stored your credentials in your browser, you can export them to Bitwarden. It’s fairly easy and will save you a lot of time.
The point of using Bitwarden (or any password manager) is that you have no idea what your password is. From a security pov you « should » update your credentials but no need to rush, one step a time 👍🏼
I started using bitwarden half a year ago and this is what I did. But once again moved, I Figured it worth nothing if I have weak and shared passwords across apps and sites. so eagrly I changed all the password on accounts that hold my financing details (bank, google, PayPal, etc..) and then lazily, every time I had to go to a site like lemmy for instance I changed it on the way
When I switched to bitwarden I updated my password to a more secure (bitwarden-generated) password each time I logged into a site and stored it on bitwarden. Painless. That's how I got better passwords across the board and incrementally moved over to bitwarden.
Are you forced to? No. Should you anyway? Yes. I did what @[email protected] said: just change them when you login. That way it doesn't feel like a grand undertaking, and you still end up with extremely secure passwords that you don't have to remember.
Also, i recommend generating your master password. If my senior mom staring down the barrel of alzheimers can remember a 12-digit string of random characters (after emptying out all the space wasted by a few dozen passwords), you can too
You can just add your current passwords to bitwarden, no need to change any passwords if you don't want. It actually takes less effort than you might think. Just add your username and password each time you need to login to something and everything will be added pretty quickly.
I felt the same as you. Here's how I managed to deal with my piles of accounts: get BitWarden set up, and pick a few main accounts to enter in and generate new passwords for. Delete your login data and cookies from your browser, then add accounts to BitWarden and generate new passwords as you come to need them. That way it's one at a time not all at once. Made it manageable for me! (BitWarden even prompts you if you'd like to save a login if it's never seen it before)
FYI privacytools[.]io has long been commandeered by the BDFL who apparently accepts—how do i put this impartially?—financial incentives for supporting specific software.
Privacyguides.org is the version maintained by the original privacytools team that have been doing the lion's share of the work since 2019
There’s a huge drama between privacytools and privacyguide, I’m not sure anyone here can tell what happened internally after reading both side of the story.
Yes privacy tools accept sponsoring but it should be transparent about it ? It was the case before, I’m not using the site anymore so idk if things have changed in a bad way I’m sorry I promoted it.
Y no one mention self hosted valutwarden
+1 for Bitwarden, have used it for years. In general, always go open source, especially for privacy / security tools.
Bruh that site doesn't do the audits themselves and if they did I would steer clear of anything they say they audited, look at all the sponsored suggestions, who would trust a site with those on it