I used to be an avid user of Datavault Password manager, which is a pretty decent app that is is with Mac OS and iOS. After a lot of searching and sifting through apps on iOS, MacOS, windows, and ubuntu, I came to realize that the password manager of my desire didn’t actually exist. That being said, I wanted a cross platform open source password manager that stored my password database files locally or in my private cloud and had excellent encryption algorithms. There is a lot of strength when inviting the eyes of the world to check your work for errors, as opposed to only allowing the ten or fifteen people at your small company to check their code for errors. Often you will hear programmers screaming that open source is the most secure, and it is, because it effectively invites every programmer in the world to oversee the code and check it for bugs or security holes. Open source, allows the code for an app to be viewed transparently (as opposed to encrypted), by every software engineer or developer in the entire world. This means, that the entire world outside of the developers for that company, are excluded from checking the app for security holes.
For those of you who don’t understand what that means, it means that only the company who creates the application can review and modify the code that the app is built on.
Being a security freak, I frown upon security based applications that are riddled with private code and made from closed source. When trying different password managers for the Mac, I discovered that none of them were really perfect. I’ve always been fascinated with password managers, as without them, my life would be an utter mess.
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