Don't use 1Password (2017)

One bad support rep interaction doesn&#x27;t sink the security model of the company.<p>If they were lying in their documentation, or the software itself, that would be a different story.

&gt; as of LAST NIGHT, there was a mention on 1password.com of using DropBox and other mechanisms for syncing vaults<p>Below is exactly what the cited page said on February 1st – as far as I can tell, this post offers absolutely no support for this claim.<p>&gt; Dropbox requires:<p>&gt; 1Password 4 on Windows [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20180201210656&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.1password.com&#x2F;sync-with-dropbox&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20180201210656&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.1...</a>

My biggest reason for not using 1Password, Lastpass, etc, is that they are all walled gardens. If any go under, you lose the service and everything locked away in it. Since they&#x27;re based on proprietary shit, it is lost for good.<p>That&#x27;s way bigger (and simpler to understand), to me, than the corporate drama that the author drums up to justify ditching it.

This guy&#x27;s priorities are backward. He blows a gasket over 1Password not being 100% clear about their feature set (and somehow this offense is great enough to warrant dropping the product entirely), but seems unconcerned that he&#x27;s entrusting his passwords to closed-source software. Why would any security-conscious person give 1Password a second thought when there are open-source alternatives?

I completely get the business model.<p>What I don&#x27;t understand is why they are coupling the business model to enforced storage in the cloud. Could someone explain why the one necessitates the other, from their point of view?<p>I saddened that they&#x27;re going to force me to stop using 1Password after all this time. I really like the software, but I don&#x27;t like handing over a lifetime of secrets to a third party—any third party.

(2017)

I appreciated the article, but I was expecting in the end a suggestion for an open source alternative. Finding it and proving that it is better than 1Password is the hard part.