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What's LastPass?

You and I know, but the great majority of the people in the world do not.

And, of course, we only see the cases where the scam app gets through. The success rate for these scams might be pretty low, but from our perspective we wouldn't know.




> What's LastPass?

> You and I know, but the great majority of the people in the world do not.

It's literally an app reviewer's job to know that. Having random people on the street reviewing apps would not be very useful. Although sadly, that may be close to the truth:

https://www.wired.com/story/apples-app-store-review-fix-fail... In a deposition in the Epic lawsuit, Shoemaker said that the qualifications needed to get hired as an app reviewer were that a person “could breathe [and] could think.”


> You and I know, but the great majority of the people in the world do not.

Relevance? When there is already an app called LastPass published by LogMeIn with millions of downloads, clearly you don't approve an app called LastPass published by a "Parvati Patel"


She got into Hogwarts. Seems legit to me:

https://www.cbr.com/questionable-harry-potter-relationships/...

That reminds me, I still have a bunch of long-tail lastpass-compromised passwords to rotate before someone brute forces my vault.


I'm on the same boat...


The scam app was called LassPass.




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