iOS devices are reasonably secure, and there are limits to what a mobile app can do, so it was a compromise I was willing to make. I trusted Spark on iOS with my E-mail password, expecting that the app will keep it to itself on the device. If Readdle's servers have my password, they are free to download, read and process as much of my E-mail as they want to, whenever and however they want to. But there are no such limits server-side. It probably won't train a machine-learning model on all 20GB of my archives, or extract all image attachments to get geo-positioning data from them. What's more, if my mobile device has my E-mail password, there are certain limits on what it can do. Nearly all E-mail is unencrypted and unsigned, and many people will trust an E-mail that they receive without question. Lots of personal information is in E-mail. Most sites do not implement 2-factor authentication and will happily allow an E-mail password reset, so E-mail access gives any attacker instant access to most online accounts.Ī confirmation E-mail is used when signing up for new services. If you want to seriously disrupt somebody's life, get access to their E-mail. So, what's the problem?Į-mail credentials are the keys to the kingdom. However, all this talk of team functionality made me slightly suspicious, as it seemed such features would be hard to implement without Readdle reading my E-mail server-side.īut I'm not a team, and I didn't sign up for anything new, and the app didn't ask me whether I will allow Readdle servers to access and read my E-mail, right?Īs it turns out, if you enter your E-mail login and password into Spark 2 on an iOS device, that login and password will be sent to Readdle's servers, stored there, and used to access your E-mail. I am not a team, but I wished Readle all the luck with the new business model. Better in every way than Apple's built-in Mail and nicely designed, it was a joy to use.Ī couple of months ago Readdle announced Spark 2, "an e-mail experience built for teams". I've been using the Spark iOS E-mail app for almost as long as it exists. Spark E-mail app: why I don't use it anymore
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