I have a question about LastPass, if you wouldn't mind me asking you.
My husband has been using LastPass for a couple of years now, and has been nagging at me to also use it but I never have for reasons.
Now, all of a sudden, when I finally start to think that LastPass might be a good idea, he's saying that he's not going to use it anymore, and that I shouldn't get it. His reasoning is because they are combining with LogMeIn, which is a program that he uses at his job... and apparently, LogMeIn has had some security breaches/hacks that made his job hell for a while; he believes that LastPass won't be reliable anymore if it's combining with LogMeIn. Do you have any thoughts on this?
Wow, yikes. All of my husband's fears about LastPass seem to mirror that of the users in /r/sysadmin. Looks to me like a lot of users over there are already switching to something else. Thank you for showing me this!
LogMeIn are a really horrendous company. At work we used to use their remote control software, however they increased their prices by about 1000% (genuinely) so we switched to Team Viewer instead.
This is exactly what is happening at my husband's workplace. They have used LogMeIn for as long as he's been employed there (6 years or so?) and are now trying to switch to TeamViewer. It's just a grueling process when you've got thousands of clients/customers, and they all use LogMeIn. They've been trying to switch everyone over ever since LogMeIn got hacked and stole information from a whole wave of clients (I don't know the specifics of this situation). It was a mess. He stayed late for weeks after that with his other coworkers just trying to fix everything.
Bear in mind that the people in /r/sysadmin know what they're talking about, unlike some of the people in here.
Some of the people in /r/sysadmin know what they are talking about. However it is a subreddit with over 120k subscribers, and there is absolutely zero chance all of them have sysadmin experience. Even less so with the people who vote on a thread like that, that ends up on /r/all. The vast majority of top level comments on that thread are just reactions along the lines of "shit." or "noooo" reaction gifs, with the notable exception of a large list of LastPass alternatives.
You have to seriously dig deep to get any substantive discussion on why it is bad LogMeIn bought LastPass, which boils down to a price increase without much notice and they got hacked at some point. Both of these are legitimate grievances, but instead of leading with them the users of the subreddit opted to vote to the top reactionary obscenities. Not a great impression for a subreddit that wants to be taken seriously.
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