07-07-2021, 02:27 AM
The overwhelming majority of people (97% in fact) choose to subscribe to our new service and many of those who initially purchased a license later changed their mind and traded it in for a membership...
Because they hid the option to upgrade to v6 or v7 with a standalone license. If you didn't know the trick, you couldn't do it, so most customers assumed that it was subscription-only and subscribed.
Engineering the outcome and then playing it up like there was a choice is deceitful. People are righteously upset at this dumb game they've been playing to promote subscriptions.
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Yeah, I'm going to need to replace 1PW when I lose 1PW 7 to an OS upgrade one of these days. It's not just the subscription that bothers me (tho that's a big factor). It's putting a copy of my passwords, notes, etc. and the master password on their servers in the cloud. I don't trust it.
LastPass got hit back in 2015 and again in 2016, and while they allege (correctly) that the data that was stolen from their servers was encrypted with tough encryption that couldn't easily be cracked at the time, I think it's a ticking time-bomb just waiting for the tools to mature enough to crack the master-passwords, and meanwhile their browser plugins have been repeatedly compromised by white-hats.
1Password's plugins have had their share of vulnerabilities exposed in the past, too, which wasn't such a big deal when the passwords were only stored in a locally encrypted keychain, but is scary when your whole life is stored in the cloud.
Because they hid the option to upgrade to v6 or v7 with a standalone license. If you didn't know the trick, you couldn't do it, so most customers assumed that it was subscription-only and subscribed.
Engineering the outcome and then playing it up like there was a choice is deceitful. People are righteously upset at this dumb game they've been playing to promote subscriptions.
...
Yeah, I'm going to need to replace 1PW when I lose 1PW 7 to an OS upgrade one of these days. It's not just the subscription that bothers me (tho that's a big factor). It's putting a copy of my passwords, notes, etc. and the master password on their servers in the cloud. I don't trust it.
LastPass got hit back in 2015 and again in 2016, and while they allege (correctly) that the data that was stolen from their servers was encrypted with tough encryption that couldn't easily be cracked at the time, I think it's a ticking time-bomb just waiting for the tools to mature enough to crack the master-passwords, and meanwhile their browser plugins have been repeatedly compromised by white-hats.
1Password's plugins have had their share of vulnerabilities exposed in the past, too, which wasn't such a big deal when the passwords were only stored in a locally encrypted keychain, but is scary when your whole life is stored in the cloud.