
Ryan Ramage
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Ryan Ramage
@ryan_ramage_
𓁚 (ra) 🧙 (mage) in a land of fire 🔥 and ice 🧊 YEG - ⬡ node js - exLDS - he/him. Director of Engineering @ https://t.co/EoBj1MfUsX




Tether just launched something that makes sense🧵 @Pears_p2p was dropped yesterday. It's a password manager that doesn't store your passwords anywhere. Not on their servers or in the cloud. It's p2p, meaning your credentials only exist on your devices and sync directly btw them. ➠ How was it formed? In June 2025 we saw 16B login credentials leaked (it was the second largest breach in history). Apple, Google, Facebook, government services, all were compromised. PearPass is a response to cloud infra failing repeatedly. ➣ Traditional password managers encrypt your vault and store it on company servers ➣ If those servers get breached, attackers have millions of encrypted vaults to crack PearPass eliminates this entirely as there are no central targets. Your passwords live locally, sync device to device when both are online. ➠ How does it handle the privacy? ‣ End to end encryption using Libsodium (industry standard crypto) ‣ Open source on GitHub ‣ Secfault Security completed an independent security audit ‣ Available free on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux ‣ Stores passwords, credit cards, notes, identity docs The P2P approach has tradeoffs. Your devices need to be online to sync, unlike cloud managers that work anywhere. But you're trading convenience for eliminating the single point of failure that's been exploited repeatedly. See PearPass isn't standalone. It's built on Pear Runtime, Tether's P2P infra they've been developing since 2022. Keet (their encrypted messaging app) already runs on it. This is part of a broader decentralized infra play. ➠ Conclusion The 91% of organizations that suffered identity related incidents in 2024 shows the current approach isn't working. Whether this specific solution gains adoption or not, the zero-server model is worth watching. Browser extension is still forthcoming and we don't know how they'll fund longterm development but @Pears_p2p is a different architectural approach to a problem that's gotten worse every year so it's worth watching.









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