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bitwarden / desktop · Archived

desktop

The desktop vault (Windows, macOS, & Linux).

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

The desktop vault (Windows, macOS, & Linux).

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-09-20 10:05:45 UTC to 2021-08-27 01:08:30 UTC.

02462020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 3 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20212021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC330
Oct 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 20202020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20202020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20212021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20212021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC606
Apr 20212021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20212021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20212021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20212021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20212021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

12 sources
sneak·Jul 6, 2021
Yes, contempt is an accurate assessment. Shipping nonconsensual spyware is unethical, and there are too many devs in our industry who are happy to behave unethically so long as their boss tells them to. Creating more social and reputational consequences for individual worker bees who make such commits on the job is also on my to-do list. Ultimately the opt out vars are token efforts by developers anyway. These projects only do the bare minimum of opt-out-ability because they have to be able to point to the opt-out setting as justification for their shipping of spyware-by-default. Making it easier to opt out isn't something they want, regardless of how much I do or don't mask my contempt for such unethical, user-hostile practices. The way the Audacity thing is playing out is instructive. Many devs simply feel entitled to take over your
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machine as if it is theirs and your double-click is a blank check. My PRs against autoupdates have run in to similar developer resistance. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4578 https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/552
In Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable
dastx·Mar 19, 2021
Do you have more information on this? A link maybe? EDIT: Never mind, found it - https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/552. This isn't exactly an RCE. You can say the same about anything. By your logic Microsoft auto-updates are RCE. Same with pacman/apt-get/yum package managers. Same with pretty much anything else. I'm not saying they're not valid concerns, however, if you're this worried about all of these things, maybe cloud-based software isn't for you.
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