Fwd: confirm 9a85e83e9531356d37cfd8581573d167b99c16f8

[Brad Anderson]

On Friday, 11 April 2014 at 19:59:57 UTC, Ziad Hatahet wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Brad Anderson <eco at gnuk.net> 
> wrote:
>>
>> I second the endorsement for LastPass... There is a lot of 
>> peace of mind
>> knowing any site hacks that occur are isolated to one site and 
>> not all the
>> sites I used the password for.
>>
>
> LastPass is still closed source, so you have to trust them. 
> Wouldn't it be
> better to use something like Password Safe or Keepass, both of 
> which are
> open source?
>
> --
> Ziad

If you actually check the source of those and build your own 
binaries, sure. I'm not going to take the time to do that though 
so having them be open source is effectively no different than 
closed source for me. I do use KeePass for work though and can 
endorse it as being useful as well.