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What's the difference between this and using an app such as Mailbox?
by ctide 13y ago
What's the difference between this and using an app such as Mailbox?
- tedunangst 13y agoIntro doesn't have a waiting list.
- uptown 13y agoAsked the same question, but nobody answered. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6601179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6601179
- ctide 13y agoI mean, Mailbox literally does the same thing (editing your messages on their backend -- http://www.mailboxapp.com/blog/?p=1#javascript-now-filtered-from-mailbox-messages http://www.mailboxapp.com/blog/?p=1#javascript-now-filtered-...) and no one cares. LinkedIn does it and the Internet goes shit crazy.
- mey 13y agoI have never heard of Mailbox before, but I have heard of LinkedIn.
- miguelrochefort 13y agoWelcome to Hacker News.
- lambda 13y agoI've never heard of Mailbox before, but based on that description, I would never use it.
- dec0dedab0de 13y agoMore people know what LinkedIn is.
- baddox 13y agoAnd, perhaps more importantly, people don't like LinkedIn.
- miguelrochefort 13y agoTons of people use LinkedIn...
- meepmorp 13y agoUsing it and liking it aren't the same thing. Shedloads of people here use Facebook, and a fair percentage of them would no doubt gleefully criticize it given half a chance.
- xgarland 13y agoAnd there's also tons of people who don't necessarily like using the service, but somewhat forced to for a number of reasons. I, for one, don't find the service that useful, however, most employers find it particularly odd if you don't have one. So, you're kind of put into an odd position by electing to go against the service in this day and age. Granted, no one is putting a gun to your head and telling you to use LinkedIn. Yet societal pressures (specifically in professional circles) have somewhat made it difficult to go against the grain.
- hhariri 13y agoNo. It's pretty simple actually. You delete your account and you say you're not on LinkedIn.
- chimeracoder 13y ago> What's the difference between this and using an app such as Mailbox? IMHO, for what it's worth, this is why I would never use Mailbox. On the HN thread for the blog post announcement yesterday, tptacek said "I don't care who the company is, or how trustworthy you think they are: avoid giving third parties credentials to your inbox."[0] I would agree with that above statement - whether it's a company with a good reputation for security or a bad one (or even a nonexistent one), that's way too much power to give to any third party. Remember that when we talk about security being about trust, it's not only about trusting their intentions, but also their power and ability. Mailbox has access to inboxes of thousands of people, some of whom have incredibly valuable emails in their inbox. Combine that with the number of services that use email as a means for authentication, and you have an incredibly attractive target for an attacker. For what it's worth, I should mention that I've been working on a self-hosted product that provides the functionality of Mailbox/Boomerang, but without the privacy and security implications of using a third-party: https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/go-yo https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/go-yo [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6600879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6600879
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- furyofantares 13y agoThere is at least one difference: Mailbox only supports gmail, and as such only asks for oauth credentials with permissions to read from and write to your inbox, not username/password. Linkedin does the same thing with gmail (and google apps) but they also support mail services that don't have this support.
- mitchelllc 13y agoI guess Mailbox will support other email soon
- grinich 13y agoIn terms of access to your mail data, there is no difference. The Oauth token you grant is operationally equivalent to an IMAP password.
- tlrobinson 13y agoNothing, and that's why I won't use either.