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Does anyone know about SafeInCloud?
No I’ve never heard of it, but have just searched it and am having a read.
I just use firefox to remember my passwords
is there an advantage to switching to some third party app like bitwarden?
I feel like firefox is good enough and very easy to view/manage my passwords, but open to arguments why others are worth switching to
How does it store them though? I thought (this was maybe long ago) they they were stored plaintext on your machine instead of in an encrypted vault like password managers.
I’ll be honest, I have no idea how secure the firefox passwords are stored… maybe I should actually research this some more
but I would hope Mozilla has a reasonably secure method in place
I’ve been using Bitwarden for years now, and I really enjoy the seamless experience across platforms. I use Windows at work, Mac/Linux/Windows at home, I also have an iPhone, iPad, Android tablets, and a Chromebook. Bitwarden works great everywhere. I originally chose it because it’s open source so I could host it myself if I wanted to.
I actually pay for Premium ($10/year) because I wanted to use FIDO hardware keys, but you also get 1GB for encrypted file attachments, which is handy.
BitWarden does everything I want, so I have a hard time considering paying far more for 1Password which does the same thing.