Universal app that, while free, is only available to users who subscribe to the company’s premium offering. The one exception to the app’s reliance on a Web-based experience is iOS, where Apple’s sandboxing policies require the company to offer a On a Windows machine, the system also supports Internet Explorer and can even be accessed through a System Tray widget. In addition to plain-old Web access, the company helpfully makes a number of extensions available for popular browsers, including Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. Since there is no “client” app, most of the interaction between LastPass and its users happens inside the browser.
Extending the Web LastPass is entirely web-based, but the service can also be accessed through browser extensions, which are available for most popular browsers. That way, LastPass has no way of snooping on your secrets, and, even if the company’s servers were hacked, the criminals would have a very hard time getting their hands on it. The company accounts for this by ensuring that all the data you pass to its service is encrypted using your master password before it actually leaves your computer.
Naturally, entrusting your passwords to LastPass’s cloud-based system raises some questions of privacy and trust. This arrangement comes with a couple key advantages for one thing, file-based synchronization is sometimes hard to set up, especially for those who are less experienced in addition, saving everything on the Web means that your passwords are at your fingertips even if your computer isn’t-at least as long as you have access to a browser and are connected to the Internet.
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