Popular Password Manager LastPass Doubles Price of Its Premium Plan, Removes features From Its Free Service Tier (neowin.net)

An anonymous reader shares a report: In November, LastPass made a big change to its service, allowing users to keep track of their passwords across all their internet-enabled mobile and desktop devices, free of charge. In addition to the free tier, the cross-platform password manager - available on iOS, Android, and Windows 10 -- also offered a Premium plan with additional features, priced at $12 per year. Today, LastPass announced another wave of changes to its lineup for individual users -- but this time, the changes are unlikely to be welcomed with open arms by its customers. LastPass Premium has now doubled in price to $24 a year, which includes "emergency access, the ability to share single passwords and items with multiple people, priority tech support, advanced multi-factor authentication, LastPass for applications, and 1GB of encrypted file storage," along with all the other features of the Free tier. In a statement, the company said, "While LastPass Free continues to offer access on all browsers and devices and the core LastPass password management functionality, unlimited sharing and emergency access are now Premium features. Free users will be able to share one item with one other individual.

Comments

The Drawback of the Cloud

[sehlat]

Once you become dependent on cloud services, they are no longer in your service, you are in theirs.

Re:I use passwords.txt.

[ShanghaiBill]

I do the same, except I have the same 6 byte prefix for all the passwords. So if a password is listed in "passwords.txt" as "correctHorseBatteryStaple" the real password is "7Rz8t5correctHorseBatteryStaple". If anyone gets access to my list, they won't know the prefix, or even know that there is a prefix.

Re:Had no idea this was even a thing

[msauve]

"Let a bunch of faceless strangers on the Internet keep all your passwords for you?"

They don't. They keep encrypted versions of your passwords. All encryption/decryption happens locally.

I use KeePass

[b0bby]

I've used KeePass for years now, and while I don't have all the fancy password sharing features I do have my passwords, in a format I trust, available on my PCs and phone. I haven't yet seen a reason to switch.

Just use KeePass

[chaotixx]

Just use open source KeePass to hold your passwords and use DropBox to sync your encrypted database between computers/phones/tablets. Works great between Windows, iOS, and Android at least. http://keepass.info/

Keepass & NextCloud..

[erktrek]

So why not use a local app and cloud storage service? I use Keepass and NextCloud but could easily use GoogleDrive or DropBox or somesuch. The encrypted file doesn't take up that much space and you can sync it to whatever device you want.

Re:Had no idea this was even a thing

[AmiMoJo]

The real issue with LastPass is that it runs in a browser. The most common way of using it is a browser add-on, and it's been found vulnerable in the past.

Much better to have a separate app and copy/paste. Javascript is not secure.

Also, KeePass is free and you can sync the database via your own server or any number of free services.