Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?
I&#x27;ve used pretty much every password manager under the sun at one point or another. Lastpass, 1Password, Bitwarden, Dashlane, Remembear, KeePass(X) and I&#x27;ve finally settled on regular ol&#x27; pass.<p>I never really understood how it &quot;syncs&quot; but it&#x27;s just git! Push and pull to update on every device. I use a private repo since site names are still metadata. You could put the whole directory tree in a tomb as well but that extension is only supported on mac only or something.<p>Pass is the one thing that seems fairly universal I think and it&#x27;s all just text files which makes things really nice. No worrying about will it work on mobile or if the browser extension is useless without an application.<p>For example, 1Password X is a standalone extension so you could use it on Linux while Dashlane requires the desktop application running on the host. The connection works but isn&#x27;t always reliable when running non-natively ie WINE<p>As for security, they&#x27;re all fairly well audited I think? Remembear and 1Password both have external audits they pass, and provide remediation plans for any findings. Probably the same with Lastpass. Personally, I don&#x27;t really think about it that much so I don&#x27;t have a good answer. You can interpret that as me trusting providers but I have no real idea. I mainly just focus on the usability hah