Folks — This thread is now OT even from its original OT topic, and
we’ve already discussed the privacy situation with server-assisted
email clients to death within living memory. Maybe now would be a good
time to take this off list?
-sam
On 5 Sep 2020, at 13:20, Antonio Leding wrote:
Apologies if I missed this — and I’m not advocating using Spark
(far from it) — but nowhere in any of Readdle’s (maker of Spark)
policies nor their blog about privacy did I see where they actually
store credentials on their servers. They do say “Spark needs access
to usernames & passwords” but I interpret this to mean the app which
is the same for all IMAP clients most notably the one I am using right
now - Mailmate.
If you have a different interpretation or know where I missed it,
please share… :=)
On 5 Sep 2020, at 8:07, Charlie Garrison wrote:
On 6 Sep 2020, at 0:13, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
If I understand this correctly, Spark's architecture requires them
to
have access to your email passwords. To me, that's a complete
non-starter; your email password is the most important one you
have, since it can be used to reset all of your other passwords.
That's an important distinction too. It's the difference between
giving someone the keys to your house (Spark) -vs- letting them peer
through the front door (Edison).
I don't want anyone doing either, but they are still very different
risk profiles. It's not ok with me when companies hide either
behaviour.
-cng
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Garrison Computer Services <http://www.garrison.com.au>
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