1Password 8.12.40 — the first minute without a single click
How we tested: a clean Debian 13 in a disposable container; source — official file https://downloads.1password.com/linux/debian/amd64/stable/1password-latest.deb (1password 8.12.40). Run as a regular user on a virtual screen, 60 seconds, nothing clicked. 19.10.2026. Every network request and every file written was recorded; the code was not decompiled. The container was deleted afterwards.
Program website: https://1password.com
Package SHA-256: e0aeadeaf3eb3705b549cfb84fe50736d5380beddb284ca39da96141163c0fcb
Summary
| What we checked | Result |
|---|---|
| Built-in telemetry, crash reporting, analytics, ad SDKs | Squirrel (update checks), Crashpad / Breakpad (crash reports), Firebase Crashlytics (crash reports), LogRocket (usage statistics) |
| Network requests in the first minute | 2 server names, plus 1 unnamed |
| Known trackers among the servers | none |
| Files written in the first minute | 99 |
| The program ran the whole time | yes — process alive at the end |
What is built in
580 files (577 MB) were checked.
| SDK | Purpose | Found in |
|---|---|---|
| Squirrel | update checks | opt/1Password/LICENSES.chromium.html |
| Crashpad / Breakpad | crash reports | opt/1Password/chrome_crashpad_handler |
| Firebase Crashlytics | crash reports | opt/1Password/resources/app.asar.unpacked/index.node |
| LogRocket | usage statistics | opt/1Password/resources/app.asar.unpacked/index.node |
Addresses of known trackers in the program’s files — addresses in code, not requests:
| Tracker | Addresses | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
developers.google.com, docs.google.com, dl.google.com, code.google.com | 991 | |
| Yahoo | it.search.yahoo.com, at.search.yahoo.com, es.search.yahoo.com, fr.search.yahoo.com | 106 |
| Mail.ru | suggests.go.mail.ru, go.mail.ru, e.mail.ru, cloud.mail.ru | 11 |
| Яндекс.Метрика | suggest.yandex.ru, yandex.ru, market.yandex.ru, music.yandex.ru | 10 |
| Google APIs | www.googleapis.com, c.bigcache.googleapis.com, chromewebstore.googleapis.com | 8 |
| YouTube | c.youtube.com, youtube.com, music.youtube.com | 8 |
| Microsoft Bing Ads | www.bing.com, bing.com | 7 |
| Cloudflare | developers.cloudflare.com, dash.cloudflare.com, cloudflare.com | 6 |
www.linkedin.com, linkedin.com, business.linkedin.com | 6 | |
www.reddit.com, reddit.com, business.reddit.com | 6 | |
| Salesforce | salesforce.com, help.salesforce.com, trailhead.salesforce.com | 6 |
accountscenter.facebook.com, www.facebook.com, facebook.com | 5 |
Where it connected
| Server | How | From second | Times | Known tracker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
redirector.gvt1.com | connection | 1.9 | 2 | — |
rr3---sn-oj1gi5-5b.gvt1.com | connection | 2.4 | 2 | — |
142.251.20.113:443 | connection without a name (TCP) | 2.0 | 1 | — |
A DNS lookup is not yet a connection: the program looked up the server’s address. But the lookup itself is visible to the ISP and the DNS server.
What it wrote to disk
Folders the program wrote files to during the minute:
| Folder | Files |
|---|---|
~/.config/1Password | 73 |
~/.config/BraveSoftware | 8 |
~/.cache/fontconfig | 5 |
~/.local/share | 3 |
~/.cache/dconf | 1 |
~/.config/autostart | 1 |
~/.config/chromium | 1 |
~/.config/google-chrome-beta | 1 |
~/.config/google-chrome-unstable | 1 |
~/.config/google-chrome | 1 |
How to read this card
- This is the first minute after launch with no action at all: what the program does on its own. Normal use may involve more requests.
- A “built-in SDK” means the library’s code was found. It does not prove data transfer, and an address in the code is not a request.
- The review was made automatically using a single method. You can check any program yourself here.