On: 1Password for Linux beta

[gilrain]

Listening to music costs $10 per month. Netflix is $15. Surely securing the keys to your digital life is worth at least $5.

[tw04 → gilrain]

Both of those are insanely expensive to create (movies, tv, and commercial music) and bandwidth intensive.

1pw can count the average users bandwidth in kilobytes per month. And while the software is refined, it’s about 1/1000th the complexity and infrastructure of Netflix or Spotify.

[overcast → tw04]

The bandwidth and infrastructure is not where the costs are.

[wott → gilrain]

$5 is the one-time cost of a paper alphabetical index notebook that will store your passwords for decades, will never get hacked, will never fail and will never be shut down.

[overcast → wott]

Except when it's stolen, lost, burned, easily read, and outrageously inconvenient for long complex passwords.

[ed25519FUUU → gilrain]

I think it’s worth $70, maybe $100. But I want to own my software, not rent it.

[overcast → ed25519FUUU]

You wouldn't own it anyhow, you're licensed to use it either way.