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Cider9986yesterday at 4:59 PM5 repliesview on HN

This is the same Google that doesn't have e2ee on their password manager by default. Like WTF, it's a password manager.


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bitpushyesterday at 5:35 PM

F. Scott Fitzgerald's test of top-tier intelligence -

> Holding two opposing views in the mind means accepting two contradictory ideas at the same time without needing to pick one side or rush to a simple answer

I continue to use Apple products because they are top class even though everytime I think of Tim Cook in the Oval Office presenting the gold plaque to the current president, it makes me wanna puke. World isnt black or white.

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aeturnumyesterday at 7:31 PM

I think that, if you are under the impression that having an administrative back door is an unpopular feature, then you should speak to more of your non-technical friends about their experience of technology. I think you'll find that the people who could most benefit from a password manager often don't have good credential management and would be worse off if they lost all their passwords when they forgot or lost their master password.

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cantalopesyesterday at 8:40 PM

That doesn't protect their ad targeting in the eyes of regulators, so no point in turning that on by default

amazingamazingyesterday at 5:13 PM

If you think about it for a moment you will realize the average user does not want that.

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oofbeytoday at 5:07 AM

Former Googler here. E2EE is easy. Nobody gets promoted at Google for solving easy problems. In fact if you set out to solve an easy problem, it looks bad at performance review time.