You know, the ones where you’re sitting at home relaxing of an evening and then “Microsoft” calls you up and tells you you’ve got viruses. The thing that’s upset me personally with LogMeIn is it’s continued presence in virus cold call scams.
(It reminds me of the Red Gate saga with Reflector in 2011 where they copped an absolute shellacking for doing the same thing) Now I get that commercial imperatives inevitably caused them to refocus their direction, but you can see what that does to reputation. Learn more about the changes: - LogMeIn, Inc. The problem with “will always be free” is when it’s no longer free:Īfter 10 years, LogMeIn Free is going away. One of the common complaints is that LogMeIn was deceptive in the promotion of their free service. LastPass remains a very viable option for those who want a password manager that runs as a managed service, but the LogMeIn acquisition has people concerned. Now I actually think they handled that really well their hashing approach was solid and indeed it was designed to be resilient to precisely this style of attack. Companies like LastPass live and die by reputation and incidents like their breach in July that exposed master password hashes are hugely significant due to the impact it has on the perception of the company. You see, entrusting all your passwords to one organisation is a big thing. Reputation is critical.- Troy Hunt October 10, 2015
Very interesting to see how many people say they will now leave as a result of the acquisition. Why aren’t they happy? I touched on it here: People aren’t real happy either when you look at the comments they’ve left on that post. I get it in the-big-publicly-traded-company-gobbling-up-the-smaller-one kinda way, but it’s an odd marriage for a company that builds remote desktop software to buy one that builds a password manager. This is somewhat of a perplexing acquisition, but apparently LastPass is now owned by LogMeIn.
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