MailTime - Email Messenger for IMAP, Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook Mail 2.4.2 (iOS / App Store) on Aug 31, 2
This application is available for iOS here. This app was designed to rethink the way to use of email apps and become email messenger. The latest build was released on May 25, 2016
Let's cite the description of this application below:
MailTime is the Email Messenger! We reformat your cluttered email threads into clean chat bubbles! MailTime is a mobile messenger built with email technology. It’s email as quick and easy as texting, and messaging without forcing all your contacts to download the same app. We sync all your desktop emails and smartly sort them into conversational emails and newsletters so you can deal with your inbox easily on the go. MailTime now supports Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, Outlook, AOL, Office 365, Mail.ru, Hotmail, QQ,163, 126, Tencent Enterprise, Sina Mail, Google Apps Mail services. You can also attach files from Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, Box, and One Drive with MailTime. NEW: Now support 3D Touch, and Spotlight Search! Long press to Multiple select and also Send GIFs from MailTime! ------------ Features Email Messaging: Our content parsing engine cuts out annoying metadata to display emails in clean bubbles. View your emails as conversations, not threads! Communicate, Don't Organize: Our intelligent inbox sorts out the Important humans from the newsletters, discounts, and other machine-generated mail in All Mail. Talk to people you care about, not machines! Group Chats: Managing your conversations in MailTime is just like a group chat. To add, remove, or switch participants to 'cc' or 'bcc', just swipe left and change your participants' status. One Click To-dos: Use the @ symbol to quickly assign tasks without leaving the inbox. For example, "@Charlie, Please download MailTime", will put the rest of that sentence into Charlie's Mentions list, next to the group status list. Too Long; Didn't Read: Just like Twitter prevents you from writing more than 140 characters, MailTime alerts you if your message is too long. You can still send them, but no guarantees that they'll be read! GIFs!! Now you can send GIFs in your emails from MailTime! Just type /giphy plus a keyword, and a random GIF will be sent to surprise you!
Findings Summary.
Our examination revealed total 40 items, where were 13 DAR items and 27 DIT items found. Among DAR items were found 0 worst items, 12 bad items, 0 good items, and 1 best item. Among DIT items were found 0 worst items, 20 bad items, 7 good items, and 0 best items.
Below you find 3 infographics summarizing what we described above. Each image provides information about both DAR and DIT items.
Now let's go deeper and examine each data item's protection level.
Protection levels.
Locally stored data (Data-at-Rest, DAR). Locally stored data groups include Address Book 'n' Contact Information, Account Information, Application Information, Message Information, Analytics 'n' Ads Information, Media Information. The average DAR value is 3.81 points (7.00 points of system protection and 0.62 points of own protection). It is higher than a typical value (3.5 points, where's 7 points of system protection and 0 points of own protection).
Items' GROUP #1 with average value 3.50 points (7 points of system protection, 0 points of own protection) means data protection levels have following definitions. Frankly talking, protection and privacy issues are possible where system protection level means - root/jailbreak is required but not possible without wiping device data, and own protection level means - data is not available in backups.
- Contact Profile ('Address Book 'n' Contact Information' Group) - Full info about contacts incl. name email id, phone numbers, gender, linked accounts, GEO data, stream and social activity. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be info stored locally, cached or transferred over the network and belong to this application if it's social even, - Media URLs ('Address Book 'n' Contact Information' Group) - URLs related to media info such as stream media or profile's media, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be info stored locally, cached or transferred over the network and belong to this application if it's social even, - Media URLs ('Account Information' Group) - URLs related to media info such as stream media or profile's media, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to profiles, basic credential ids like email or username or phone number plus some more info depends on applications, - Media Data ('Account Information' Group) - Any kind of info like images, audios, videos, media notes, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to profiles, basic credential ids like email or username or phone number plus some more info depends on applications, - Account Settings 'n' Configs ('Account Information' Group) - Information about your account settings and configurations. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to profiles, basic credential ids like email or username or phone number plus some more info depends on applications, - Application Configs ('Application Information' Group) - Different configuration files created by your app, perhaps app permissions. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of info related to app, app settings, incl. installed apps or installers, - Credentials (IDs) ('Application Information' Group) - Only account IDs like app or 3rd party user IDs incl. emails, phone number, usernames and etc. (depends on apps). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of info related to app, app settings, incl. installed apps or installers, - Attachment Details ('Message Information' Group) - Attachment details like size, name and so on. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be all type of message, incl. SMS, MMS, social & IM messages with or without attachments, - Messages ('Message Information' Group) - Different types of messages, conversations except SMS, MMS but incl. recipient & sender IDs and attachments. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be all type of message, incl. SMS, MMS, social & IM messages with or without attachments, - Contact Short Profile ('Message Information' Group) - Name, Email ID, Phone number of contacts. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be all type of message, incl. SMS, MMS, social & IM messages with or without attachments, - Local 'n' Network Paths ('Message Information' Group) - Paths about local or networks directories, folders, files. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be all type of message, incl. SMS, MMS, social & IM messages with or without attachments, - Device Data ('Analytics 'n' Ads Information' Group) - Device ID, Device Name, Device OS Name and Version, and jailbroken/root status. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of info related to analytics services like flurry, google analytics, etc. or advertisements
Items' GROUP #2 with average value 7.50 points (7 points of system protection, 8 points of own protection) means data protection levels have following definitions. Frankly talking, complianced but there are publicly known techniques to access the data where system protection level means - root/jailbreak is required but not possible without wiping device data, and own protection level means - complianced encryption algorithms 'n' security mechanisms implementations.
- Screen Snapshots ('Media Information' Group) - Screenshots of your device screen running certain apps (by default available for iOS device but happens for any 3rd party apps that have such features). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be lot of data like photo, image, video, audio
Also, keep in mind, using jailbroken device means the system protection level is 0 points and you're using out-of-dated iOS < 8.3 the system protection level is 2 points. If some data marked as shareable via iTunes, then the system protection level is 4 points.
Transferred data (Data-in-Transit, DIT). Transferred data groups include Device Information, Analytics 'n' Ads Information, Account Information, Message Information, Credentials Information, Storage Information, Social Information, Address Book 'n' Contact Information, Application Information. The average DIT value is 4.39 points (4.00 points of system protection and 4.78 points of own protection). It is higher than a typical value (4 points, where's 4 points of system protection and 4 points of own protection).
Items' GROUP #1 with average value 4.00 points (4 points of system protection, 4 points of own protection) means data protection levels have following definitions. Frankly talking, data available if it's allowed only and may require user action where system protection level means - informs if fake certificate imported into a device, and own protection level means - bypassed by fake/stolen root certificates.
- Environment ('Device Information' Group) - Different info about environment of you device incl. apps lists, device info, OS name and versions, updates, list of users, network details, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be details about your device, - Environment ('Analytics 'n' Ads Information' Group) - Different info about environment of you device incl. apps lists, device info, OS name and versions, updates, list of users, network details, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of info related to analytics services like flurry, google analytics, etc. or advertisements, - Account Data ('Account Information' Group) - Basic info about account like name, list of sub-account (e.g. financial or other) and some linked data like a phone number. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to profiles, basic credential ids like email or username or phone number plus some more info depends on applications, - Credentials (IDs) ('Credentials Information' Group) - Only account IDs like app or 3rd party user IDs incl. emails, phone number, usernames and etc. (depends on apps). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any types of credentials incl. basic (ids only), passwords, tokens, etc., - Credentials (Passwords) ('Credentials Information' Group) - Well known passwords or PINs you're using to get an access to your account (usually worse than tokens because gives a full access to your account). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any types of credentials incl. basic (ids only), passwords, tokens, etc., - Credentials (Tokens) ('Credentials Information' Group) - Different tokens used to get an access to your account except passwords but incl. app or 3rd party tokens, secret keys and etc. (usually give a full access to your account). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any types of credentials incl. basic (ids only), passwords, tokens, etc., - Credentials (IDs) ('Storage Information' Group) - Only account IDs like app or 3rd party user IDs incl. emails, phone number, usernames and etc. (depends on apps). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of information referred to storage like credentials, settings, documents and so on, - Credentials (Passwords) ('Storage Information' Group) - Well known passwords or PINs you're using to get an access to your account (usually worse than tokens because gives a full access to your account). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of information referred to storage like credentials, settings, documents and so on, - Credentials (Tokens) ('Storage Information' Group) - Different tokens used to get an access to your account except passwords but incl. app or 3rd party tokens, secret keys and etc. (usually give a full access to your account). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of information referred to storage like credentials, settings, documents and so on, - Credentials (IDs) ('Social Information' Group) - Only account IDs like app or 3rd party user IDs incl. emails, phone number, usernames and etc. (depends on apps). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be info grabbed from 3rd party social networks, - Credentials (Passwords) ('Social Information' Group) - Well known passwords or PINs you're using to get an access to your account (usually worse than tokens because gives a full access to your account). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be info grabbed from 3rd party social networks, - Credentials (Tokens) ('Social Information' Group) - Different tokens used to get an access to your account except passwords but incl. app or 3rd party tokens, secret keys and etc. (usually give a full access to your account). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be info grabbed from 3rd party social networks, - Sync Documents ('Storage Information' Group) - Documents synchronized or locally stored on your device as is or converted into another file formats (like.pdf or set of separated jpg file per each .pdf file. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of information referred to storage like credentials, settings, documents and so on, - Local 'n' Network Paths ('Storage Information' Group) - Paths about local or networks directories, folders, files. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of information referred to storage like credentials, settings, documents and so on, - Document Details ('Storage Information' Group) - Common info about documents synchronized or stored locally (properties like size, date and time, etc.). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of information referred to storage like credentials, settings, documents and so on, - Document List ('Storage Information' Group) - List of documents stored local or synchronized over Internet. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of information referred to storage like credentials, settings, documents and so on, - Media Data ('Storage Information' Group) - Any kind of info like images, audios, videos, media notes, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of information referred to storage like credentials, settings, documents and so on, - Account Settings 'n' Configs ('Account Information' Group) - Information about your account settings and configurations. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to profiles, basic credential ids like email or username or phone number plus some more info depends on applications, - Media Data ('Account Information' Group) - Any kind of info like images, audios, videos, media notes, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to profiles, basic credential ids like email or username or phone number plus some more info depends on applications, - Media URLs ('Account Information' Group) - URLs related to media info such as stream media or profile's media, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to profiles, basic credential ids like email or username or phone number plus some more info depends on applications
Items' GROUP #2 with average value 5.50 points (4 points of system protection, 7 points of own protection) means data protection levels have following definitions. Frankly talking, data is not available all the time or partially accessed where system protection level means - informs if fake certificate imported into a device, and own protection level means - tricks to bypass sniffing (hardly to be (or can't be) patched to bypass), incl. non-common or unsupported protocols. - Messages ('Message Information' Group) - Different types of messages, conversations except SMS, MMS but incl. recipient & sender IDs and attachments. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be all type of message, incl. SMS, MMS, social & IM messages with or without attachments, - Media Data ('Message Information' Group) - Any kind of info like images, audios, videos, media notes, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be all type of message, incl. SMS, MMS, social & IM messages with or without attachments, - Contact Short Profile ('Message Information' Group) - Name, Email ID, Phone number of contacts. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be all type of message, incl. SMS, MMS, social & IM messages with or without attachments, - Contact Profile ('Address Book 'n' Contact Information' Group) - Full info about contacts incl. name email id, phone numbers, gender, linked accounts, GEO data, stream and social activity. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be info stored locally, cached or transferred over the network and belong to this application if it's social even, - Contact Social ('Address Book 'n' Contact Information' Group) - Some info about social account, connections and perhaps social activity. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be info stored locally, cached or transferred over the network and belong to this application if it's social even, - Application Configs ('Application Information' Group) - Different configuration files created by your app, perhaps app permissions. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any kind of info related to app, app settings, incl. installed apps or installers, - Attachments ('Message Information' Group) - Either Raw or encoded attachments files. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be all type of message, incl. SMS, MMS, social & IM messages with or without attachments
Keep in mind if you're using out-of-dated iOS < 9.0, the system level equals 2 points instead of 4. It means your data can be stolen without involving your actions.
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