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chilston
4 years agoNew Contributor
Master Password required to be entered every 2 weeks on Beta 8.5.0
On the beta Mac version 8.5.0, there is no way to disable "Master Password required to be entered every 2 weeks". Could you give me a way to do that?
1Password Version: 8.5.0
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Former Member
4 years agoAs a service you trust with securing your passwords and other sensitive data, we take your security seriously and are partially responsible for it.
I didn't have to trust 1password this much until now that I am forced to use the cloud service. Since the very beginning 1password had made it very clear that the user was the only one that's solely responsible for securing the vault, master password and secret key because the data is encrypted/decrypted locally. By requiring your users to enter the password more often, the responsibility structure does not change a tiny bit -- it only reduces your support cost because the average Joes will be less likely to forget the password and waste your support resource. What's worse, now you push advanced users to choose less complex passwords so they are easier to type in on smart phones.
1Password has a lot of enterprise customers now, and you surely can understand that different businesses may have different threat models. My company has our own protocols to deal with forgotten or compromised passwords and it is not up to the vendor to say "No, you can't forget your password or terrible things will happen to you". In version 7, the "Never" option is hidden deeply in an advanced setting screen, why is that not enough? Why is "2 weeks" an ok threashold for every single user?