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> The data that 1Password stores on their end is encrypted with your personal passphrase.

For now. What happens when they eat enough of the market and displace enough other tools that the government says "Ok, now MitM the encryption." All they would need to do is push an update and re-encrypt the first time you unlock it. Now, this has always been true, but it's not on your servers and source repos yet, right now it's sandboxed.

How about internet outages? Service outages? Sure, local cache, but that cache expires.

I love PW managers, even cloud ones, but I wouldn't tie on directly to my local login and auth infrastructure to the exclusion of other local options.

I have autofill turned off because it can fill into nefarious forms if you're not careful. And I copy and paste from my pw manager into my terminal when required, because again I don't want it automatically being helpful when I want to be careful.




> What happens when they eat enough of the market and displace enough other tools that the government says "Ok, now MitM the encryption."

I'll take that risk, given probability over possibility. But thank you for pointing out at least one scenario I hadn't thought of!

> How about internet outages? Service outages? Sure, local cache, but that cache expires.

Local cache doesn't expire, also the probability of me being offline for so long that this becomes a problem is close enough to zero for my comfort.

That said, I am guessing you might be responsible for some kind of critical (even just to you) infrastructure so we probably have different variables in our "is this for me" math..


>And I copy and paste from my pw manager into my terminal when required

I hope no other apps are watching your clipboard.


At least on the Mac, it seems to use the secure clipboard so it’s not in view of other apps, but I may be wrong.


> I have autofill turned off because it can fill into nefarious forms if you're not careful.

One nice feature that 1pass has is that it will warn you when you attempt to autofill credentials for a url or mobile application that isn't listed as part of the credential.

e.g. 1pass "Logins" have a URI associated with them like "google.com" and if you visit a phishing site like "g00gle.com" and hit autofill 1pass says something along the lines of "Are you sure you want to fill these creds into g00gle.com?" and not fill until you approve. It's not foolproof, but certainly provides a nice barrier against fake login/phishing sites.


Note that, to my knowledge, 1Password's local cache never expires, not even after you've been removed from the 1Password account on the cloud side.




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