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FWIW. After using it at my previous workplace, I got a 1Password family account.

It’s got my (not particularly technical) wife using unique strong passwords for all her online accounts and made family password sharing easy. I think the convenience of the cloud is key to this.

I get that there’s a security risk that 1Password gets compromised and the app is infected with malware or there ends up being a vulnerability on their encryption scheme but it still feels like a net improvement to my overall online security.

Also MFA can help mitigate the risks of the passwords being compromised.




> but it still feels like a net improvement to my overall online security.

This is what I’m at on it too. Without cloud syncing convenience wins and we end up using simple passwords over and over again.

With cloud syncing I believe we are much more secure than we would otherwise be.


The old 1Password, you could sync without cloud.


Yeah I tried that for ages. Was never seamless enough to get the whole family on board easily.

Especially across multiple users.




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