Re:Mailbox iOS app is a security fail
by potatolicious on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @09:18AM
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What's on offer here is the ability to exclude a large class of attackers entirely - script kiddies with a commonly available file explorer tool.
Sure, if you're the CEO of some big company and a skilled attacker really wants at your email, this is only a stopgap - but this is also sufficient to stop less proficient attackers entirely. For most people this is all they need.
> "it's more like telling bicycle riders to use anti-puncture tape."
If anti-puncture tape has literally no downsides whatsoever to the bicycle rider's experience, and costs nothing, then yes. Why wouldn't you have it?
Sure, if you're the CEO of some big company and a skilled attacker really wants at your email, this is only a stopgap - but this is also sufficient to stop less proficient attackers entirely. For most people this is all they need.
> "it's more like telling bicycle riders to use anti-puncture tape."
If anti-puncture tape has literally no downsides whatsoever to the bicycle rider's experience, and costs nothing, then yes. Why wouldn't you have it?