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by cpenner461 3248 days ago
> I don't understand why a simple problem like password management, needs a subscription and a private company to create software for the problem.

Speaking from recent experience migrating non technical users to 1Password, while something like pass might work well for me/the typical HN user, there's no way I'd try to get family to use it. I have found the overall 1Password user experience to be very friendly and reliable, but am still semi regularly having to help family figure out/re-explain something about how it works. They'd be lost with something like pass.
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dannysu 3248 days ago
Exactly. You're paying 1Password to maintain the various apps and browser plugins. Continuing to improve UX and add language support.

My parents don't speak English. Not everyone does.

That's what you're paying 1Password for.

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hedora 3248 days ago
I wish people would pay pass (or some other auditable open source software team) for this sort of thing instead.

The situation is particularly painful for security critical software like password managers and disk encryption. Commercial software could be keeping a rot-13 copy of the database on an anonymous ftp server for all I know (or, worse, be written for a leaky JavaScript sandbox).

The open source stuff generally stalls out after the first 90% of the functionality is there, and the second 90% of the work remains.

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pnutjam 3247 days ago
spider oak has a nice one for non-technical users, https://spideroak.com/personal/encryptr.

Encryptr uses their no-knowledge cloud. It's pretty cool and their processes are openly documented.

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