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On a desktop app, you can see what kind of request the program makes and which servers it contacts. With a webapp, you'll never know what the app does.
by qz3 8y ago
On a desktop app, you can see what kind of request the program makes and which servers it contacts. With a webapp, you'll never know what the app does.
- crystaln 8y agoHow so? It's quite simple to tell what a web app does in my understanding. Chrome has many good monitoring tools.
- dillondoyle 8y agoThe webapp can send your data wherever once it has the data, chrome won't log http requests if they were made server to server etc
- methyl 8y agoIsn't it the case for any app?
- Qwertie 8y agoThe logic is a native app can make a direct IMAP connection to the mail server and you can check it is doing so where as a web app has to send the login details to a server which does IMAP for the client and you can not see this last part.
- gsich 8y agoA native application can do that too.
- alimbada 8y agoYou can do the same in your browser by opening the developer tools and in fact it comes built in to the browser whereas on a desktop you'd have to install another app like Wireshark/Fiddler to see those requests.
- stephenr 8y agoThat only tells you what your browser sends to their server. It doesn't tell you what connections their server makes.
- crystaln 8y agoNothing will. The vulnerability of what happens to your data after it is sent to a third party is the same for any app, web or native. The biggest difference is that it's way easier to see where you're data is being sent in a browser, since it has built in tools. It's very hard to monitor native app traffic that is sent over SSL.
- stephenr 8y agoWhen the app is native there no requirement for a third party server. You, Your mail (provider) server. Vs You, the server hosting the web app, your mail (provider) server.
- pritambaral 8y ago> With a webapp, you'll never know what the app does. Unless you run uMatrix or uBlock Origin (same code in both as far as this feature is concerned), of course.
- progx 8y agoNonsens. Every traffic can be monitored, web app or native app, that is not important.