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More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user (www.theverge.com)
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More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user::Security experts believe some of the LastPass password vaults stolen during a security breach last year have now been cracked open following a string of cryptocurrency heists

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use Syncthing to keep my Keepass files synchronized on my devices. All the benefits of cloud storage, but my password file never leaves my control.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I do exactly this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great idea! I rely on Firefox's service, would you recommend I switch?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I don't like to rely on anyone's cloud services for mission critical applications like password storage, since they have a history of being discontinued without notice.

I do trust Mozilla a lot more than Google, though.

With Syncthing at least if the discovery servers go down you still have a local copy as well as off-site backups, and can easily migrate to some other sync solution as your password manager is not tied to your browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would argue that email is similarly as critical, yet Selfhosting email is a bad idea practically and from a security standpoint. Your argument does not apply in general.