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What is the point of vaultwarden? Is it safer or less safe than using the bitwarden app/website? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Trashrascall@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Not sure I understand why you'd want to self host a password manager. Bitwarden has never been breached AFAIK. How is it better or safer to keep if self hosted?

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[–] Zeal514@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

A few reasons.

  1. Privacy, you control your data. It doesn't go to someone else's server to sit.

  2. Security. It's on your server. Password managers are primarily targets for hackers, i don't want to name names, cause I'm not 100% sure of the name. But, one pw manager was hacked like 3x in the past year or something. It's on your server, you are less likely to be targeted for a huge data breach, and you get to manage your data. Not someone else who fucks up.

  3. You can't be banned, or have the provider suddenly change access to the server, thus losing your data. I will name names here. MyQ garage door opener by Chamberlain suddenly removed the smart home integration, since the whole system ran on their servers. Removing the functionality users paid for. But they don't own it, so they just got fucked. Your data/service on someone else's server, is actually their data/service, you are just a visitor.

[–] solarsparq@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I laughed at this. Tell people at parties you run Arch. I need new friends. Thank you for this.

[–] kevdogger@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

But I do run my vaultwarden on arch...no one gives a shit

[–] FoolHooligan@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The name is LastPass.