Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 weeks agoYou can do what you like, but the change is sane, and they’ve now separated their Secrets Manager, which is their proprietary software for businesses, from their primary client, which is GPL.
IMO, the internet is doing that thing again where they invent villains.
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
If they tried once, there will be a second, but more subtle.
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
That’s called “paranoia.” You’re inventing conspiracy theories.
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I wish it’s just pananoia, and I wish nothing substantial changed. I’m hosting vaultwarden currently for my family. To them the app on their phone is paramount. However, it is proven some will go that route, like Android.
There is a risk and a probability one need to evaluate. Nothing wrong to plan for an exit, but abandoning the software right now is simply overreaction.
As long as I can use it with a self-hosted server with features they expect, I’m don’t think I will move away from it.
4am@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
This is a much more level take than your first comment.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
tbh I don’t think any of the 2 sides here could know that their opinion is the truth. we can’t say that it’s intentional, but can’t either that it’s just a honest mistake, so far everyone saying that just sounds to apply wishful thinking. let’s see what happens in a few years, and then we may be able to judge future incidents better.
4am@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
They didn’t try anything. Stop inventing. Go read an actual article on the subject instead of feeding the scarebait frenzy.
catloaf@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
What makes you think this was intentional?
dustyData@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If this were done by MS or Apple, who lack any shred of respect left, sure. If it were a material change on how the code works, certainly it would be most concerning. But what happened was blown entirely out of proportion for who Bitwarden has been and how they’ve acted in the past. They are still ethically very solid. And it was an immaterial change in the build tools, that could very well have been neglectful or accidental.
4am@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
You are correct, but the way people reacted is certainly conditioning from the rug-pulling enshittification going on daily in the tech world. (What are we all using instead of redis, again?)