{"id":29,"date":"2021-03-06T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2022-06-20T14:27:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T14:27:20","slug":"ditching-lastpass-for-bitwarden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/03\/ditching-lastpass-for-bitwarden\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditching Lastpass for Bitwarden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a user of Lastpass for over 5 years. With the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lastpass.com\/2021\/02\/changes-to-lastpass-free\/\">new change coming in this month<\/a> of choosing a device type and sticking to that only, I&#8217;ve started to look for an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Their new change really throws a spanner in the works as I frequently use both the Android App (type mobile), and the Chrome extension (type computer) &#8211; now I could pay the circa \u00a332 p\/year, but I\u00a0<strong>really<\/strong> don&#8217;t want to. I&#8217;d be more inclined if it was some smaller company, but given Lastpass is part of LogMeIn who had a revenue of $1.2bn in 2019, they really do not need my money. Frankly, for making such a basic feature &#8216;premium&#8217; &#8211; and killing the free tier, they can go swivel.<\/p>\n<p>One of the alternatives I looked at was <a href=\"https:\/\/bitwarden.com\/\">Bitwarden<\/a> the opensource appeals to me, just because any other password manager&#8217;s code is closed source and internally reviewed doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s any more secure. Remember, with it being opensource code it allows a better overview of its code by other developers. Bitwarden also offers 256-bit AES end-to-end encryption, and the ability to self-host if I was feeling extra paranoid. So it is definitely secure enough.<\/p>\n<p>Importing my data into Bitwarden from Lastpass was a doddle. It even retained my groups and such. The mobile app, Chrome extension, and browser version all seem fine too &#8211; and it supports 2FA via an authenticator.<\/p>\n<p>Now to clean up these passwords and group them properly&#8230;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s going to be painstaking to try each credential to see if it still works, or if I want to close the said account.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, it is a little annoying I have 3 separate logins for Amazon with the same email (Shopping, Alexa SDK, AWS)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I could go for the\u00a0Kondo approach, if the password or service doesn&#8217;t spark joy, bin it.<\/p>\n<p>Bye Lastpass x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a user of Lastpass for over 5 years. With the new change coming in this month of choosing a device type and sticking to that only, I&#8217;ve started to look for an alternative. Their new change really throws a spanner in the works as I frequently use both the Android App (type&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11,12,13],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bwlp-e1614984307276.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roblsmith.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}