1Password Secrets Automation
While this looks interesting, I&#x27;ll admit I feel like there&#x27;s been a bit of drift from their bread and butter over the years since they launched their cloud thing and started pushing hard towards a subscription model. I chose them long ago specifically over options like LastPass because I liked having a rich application without internet dependency and their attention to detail and features there, but it&#x27;s been a while since it feels like it got major new improvements vs the site. For example, while macOS and Windows have supported smart cards and security tokens like YubiKeys forever now, and I use them to login, unlock, authorize sudo&#x2F;SSH, etc every day, 1Password still has no support. There are things that can now only be done through the web interface, like finer grained control over permissions for shared vaults, and some of those are also nastily locked away behind more expensive subscriptions. I think everything should be manageable through the application, without ever visiting the site. Duplicate items across vaults remain completely manually managed, when automating stuff like that is kind of the purpose of a password manager. Etc. Heck, even within their own subscription service I think they&#x27;re missing a trick by not having more powerful&#x2F;flexible organization(including families) and inter-organizational capabilities.<p>I still think 1Password is the best option for most people. I specifically want my non-technical family and friends to use password managers too as long as its necessary, and having some multiperson capability is also key to that. I can&#x27;t say though that I feel like the move to subs has been a huge win in terms of development.<p>Granted, I&#x27;m a little down on the whole field which colors things a bit. Ultimately underlying my feelings is a touch of bitterness that their entire industry even exists. Passwords and password managers are mostly recreating public key auth really, really badly and it stinks. Passwords and other symmetric tokens by definition should never be shared. A website being hacked should <i>never</i> affect me in the slightest, in the same way that me getting hacked doesn&#x27;t somehow suddenly mean attackers now own Debian&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;FreeBSD&#x2F;Microsoft. Everywhere should just have public keys. We&#x27;ve had the tech for decades and sufficient crypto speed on client systems since at least AES-NI. What&#x27;s been missing has been glue and effort. It&#x27;s frustrating every time a hack happens. We shouldn&#x27;t have to care! Sigh.