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It's funny you don't think that could happen to them too. Such confidence.
You know keepass is a local keystore, right? There is no "them".
Unless you're the one literally writing the program. It is being developed by other people who at any point in time could have issues. Just saying not saying they do now but it can certainly happen.
Well you better not use any software ever then, never know what 'can certainly happen'. Get a grip.
Its GPL licensed, there'll be a dozen different forks before you know it.
Aren't there already?
Yep. When I say "I use Keepass" what I actually mean is "I use KeepassXC, Macpass, KeepassDX, etc. depending on which OS I'm on at the time" and AFAIK none of those are actually made by the original Keepass developer.
... Do you ever check for contact poisons soaked into your undies?
You think if the developer bails out, the software will magically disappear from everywhere, leaving you with no way of recovery whatsoever?
Let's say they decide to pull the plug. Everything you have that's already running will keep running. Code can be forked (in fact with keepass, it already happened). Data can be exported after the fact. Other software can actually open keepass database file.
You really don't see the difference between this and "the server stopped sending you your own data, oops"?
The passwords are saved into a vault file. You can choose a different software that is capable of opening the vault. I use keepassXC for example. there's some variety of programs that can open this filetype, on many different platforms.
You can fork it
Why I never, such language....
You don't auto update it, and you store the keys locally, and if you need passwords on a device you use a VPN to access them, I'm not to concerned about updating my manager I'm more concerned about my VPN 😂
But I get what your saying.
They distrust anyone to keep their passwords except to write their own program to manage theirs, or happen to take blind pride in supposed eidetic memory.
1Password is a paid service. The money given to for the service can go to organizations the user doesn't agree with.
KeePass is free.
How is it the same?