Security News > 2023 > January > For password protection, dump LastPass for open source Bitwarden

Opinion For better or worse, we still need passwords, and to protect and organize them, I recommend the open source Bitwarden password manager.

LastPass is perhaps the world's most popular password manager.

LastPass recommends you change your master password and all your other passwords.

The company admits the Bitwarden License does not qualify as open source under the Open Source Initiative definition, but they "Believe that the license successfully balances the principles of openness and community with our business goals."

For free, you also get a cloud-based store for all your passwords, Bitwarden Web Vault; a random password generator; two-factor authentication; and the added safety of Bitwarden's database breach feature.

Suppose you don't trust anyone with your IDs and passwords? In that case, you can do what I do and run your own Bitwarden server.

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