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1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.

Archive: https://archive.is/osNh3

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 89 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It's probably not made up because 1Password is pre-installed and bound to a hotkey in Omarchy. Linux users making informed decisions about what to use for password management probably don't pick 1Password most of the time due to its terrible security record.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 days ago

That piece of information seems like key context. 1Password didn't just give money simply because they like the product. More or less, it's product placement in return for funding.

I'm on the fence if that's better or worse.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah didn't realize it came preinstalled lol.

spoilerPrepackaged "superior" arch distro and the best they could come up with was 1Password? seriously lol?

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago

1Password is the best they could come up with when "best" is measured in dollars contributed.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I said somewhere else that giving money to a distro won't even have an ROI, but I didn't know about this. If the distro is promoting their product that's a whole other thing.

[–] 418_im_a_teapot@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Terrible security record?

Of the items listed in your link, only the second one seems problematic, in that I wish they had discovered the (non-password but still privacy related) issues first. Even that section acknowledges all of the issues are fixed. The only section that makes it sound like there is still a problem is the last one, which states that version X still contains the vulnerabilities, but in reality that's just how versions work. Patching a vulnerability creates a new version.

Is there ANY record of passwords being leaked from 1password because of their own lack of security??

[–] abc@suppo.fi 1 points 17 hours ago

The pattern is this: First, they find out who to hate. Second, they find reasons to hate. Third, if they cannot find any reasons, they make them up.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol what. 1Password literally has one of the best security records out there. They’re the ones actually inventing new more secure ways of doing things. The fact that those are all of the issues over the years and they’re one of the most popular pw managers on the planet is pretty indicative of how strong their security actually is. And they’ve never had a password breach, unlike lastpass.

[–] roundabout@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

They are nonfree.