I've used KeePassX + Dropbox for 5 years across Windows, Linux, OSX, iPhone and Android. With Dropbox's restriction to 3 devices, and since this is the only thing I use Dropbox for, I'm currently looking at LastPass instead

I would recommend BitWarden over LastPass any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

I originally used LastPass for a long time, but it went downhill fast with its sale to LogMeIn and the retirement of the old Firefox extension.

Switching to BitWarden was a delightful experience and I haven't been disappointed with it yet.

I know I'm not financially liable, but when the bank has to cancel and reissue my card (with a new number), it's still annoying to have to go and switch it everywhere. Smaller surface area (so less places to change) helps with that pain too.

I feel like I'm trying to decode a regex. Could you reword that a little clearer?

Unfortunately I suspect that in terms of information density, it is likely to be the opposite of a regex.

That means they're less likely to have their servers and data seized by the US Gov't (assuming it's all hosted in Canada, and not an EC2-US instance), but the .com address is a US asset that can still be seized.

With the way the article compared it to donating organs, I figured this was a system for releasing information after death. In that case, the de-anonymizing problem is less of an issue. (Informed consent of this problem would still be needed of course)

3. I think he was referring to aggregate file size (total amount stored) not a single file. If that's the case, his point still stands.

4. He was probably saying that, as the average age of the nodes in the network goes up, the chance of them failing goes up. Also, the duplication you say (hundreds of copies) is in direct opposition to usable space (hundreds of copies means you can only use 1/100 of the space on your node. Because of this, I don't think your files will ever be duplicated on the order of "hundreds", probably less than 10. Also, it's important to keep clear: My node will backup to hundreds of other nodes, but each individual file fragment will only be duplicated to 3 (or whatever) nodes. That smaller number is the important one that keeps getting discussed.

There won't be hundreds of copies. A device may back up data to hundreds of other devices in total, though.

Space Monkey data will be resilient to considerably more than 3 nodes failing.

Hundreds of devices storing small files on your one hard drive could be more iops than the device can handle. Does Space Monkey account for other users potentially killing the performance of a single device?

They both know it was the validated owner of user@example.org, so if Service1 and Service2 compare their users, they will see the same e-mail address.

I think that's only true if it was known how many wallets were actually lost. As is, the fraction of worth captured in that wallet can never be re-distributed to other people who own bitcoins, because the wallet is never decommissioned, just dormant.

Not quite. Losing your wallet doesn't destroy anything beside the proof that the rest of society owes you anything.

No actual worth is lost. You just lost the proof that you have a right to something useful or pleasant. It will be claimed by other people. Market will discover how much bitcoins were lost and bitcoin price will raise accordingly so other people holding bitcoin will be entitled to tiny bit more of the valuable things that society provides.

If you break your glass bowl it's a loss for the humanity. If you loose bitcoin wallet it's just a loss for you.

That is only true if the loss is actually permanent. If the system comes to assume that there are only 10,000,000 coins in circulation, what happens if a substantial portion of the "lost" 11,000,000 shows back up? Now you just had a 50% inflation overnight...

Of course, the chance that huge amounts are lost together is quite low.

I don't think you could double the amount of bitcoins overnight. And even if you could I doubt that it would lead to rapid inflation. Rather gradual as additional bitcoins spread throughout the economy.

They shouldn't be able to patent the idea of a holodeck, which I thought was the main argument in this article. The mechanics of using force fields (or whatever) would still be the subject of the patents if they were novel.

Yes, I agree. I've 'protested' my two senator's stance for PIPA, but I made sure to call and thank my House rep for opposing SOPA.

I did the exact same. I wasn't aware before calling that my representative opposed both bills, but I made sure his staff knew I appreciated it when they told me.