Pour one out for all of the security practitioners who are going to have to spend the holidays patiently explaining that using a password manager is still good, actually, to people who have glanced at a headline about the latest LastPass breach.
@evacide ok but serious question: is LastPass less secure than other password managers? I hear about their breaches quite often.

@antimatter @evacide,

Disclosure. I work for 1Password, a competitor of LastPass.

The problem (in this case) is the consequence of being breached. We have built 1Password so the the consequences for users of a similar breach would be minimal. There are real differences in the security architecture of different password managers that can make

I wrote about a relevant difference a year ago.

https://blog.1password.com/what-the-secret-key-does/

Secret Key: What is it, and how does it protect you? | 1Password

The Secret Key is a unique feature that protects you if 1Password’s servers were to be breached. Read here to learn more about the benefits of the secret key.

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