![]() ![]() And with the scope of its failure, it’s hard to see how anyone can trust the company ever again. If you’re going to ask people to pay for basic functionality, functionality that’s built into the base level of operating systems and browsers at this point, you had better nail it. Aside from the general convenience of remembering your passwords for you, keeping them safe from prying eyes is LastPass’s entire business model - and one that it charges you for if you want to use it on more than one device. But in the case of LastPass, the hacks absolutely were its fault - a series of lax security standards and vulnerabilities to targeted phishing attempts were how the malefactors got in.Īnd perhaps more damning, LastPass’s failure absolutely indicates a severe deficiency. After all, criminals are criminals, and they’ll hack any high-profile target that they can. ![]() Now, a company getting hacked isn’t necessarily its fault, and it doesn’t necessarily indicate any kind of deficiency. (No, Aunt Laura, you can’t just have “password1” as your password for everything.) But if you’ve been following the news lately, you know that LastPass and its parent company GoTo have been getting an absolute shellacking among users of all levels after a series of high-profile hacks. I was a happy user of LastPass for years, and an evangelist of the service for my less technical friends and family. It takes a lot to change the way a nerd does things, is my point.Īnd on that note: LastPass. That’s why we all had that one job that was still using a DOS inventory management program on its computers well after 2000, and it’s why we’re still getting Pokemon games while some of the original “gotta catch ’em all” generation are now grandparents.
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