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Dump LastPass for open source Bitwarden

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 16, 2023

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For better or worse, we still need passwords, and to protect and organize them, I recommend the open source Bitwarden password manager.

LastPass is perhaps the world's most popular password manager. It's also arguably the most broken password manager. There's a better, safer open source alternative.

But before I dive into Bitwarden, let's talk a little bit about why LastPass is problematic. Late last year, LastPass CEO Karim Toubba revealed that an August security incident had been much worse than they'd first admitted. Instead of simply losing internal source code and developer documents – bad enough – they'd also lost customer account information and vault data.

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