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brulx126today at 2:44 PM5 repliesview on HN

Not just that, the new outlook app makes Microsoft a complete man-in-the-middle for your email account.

https://www.xda-developers.com/privacy-implications-new-micr...


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donmcronaldtoday at 5:01 PM

They store passwords and proxy everything at the same time they’re pushing OAuth, authenticators, passkeys, etc. for their own services. Everyone should have revolted when they bought Acompli and started doing this kind of thing.

kstrausertoday at 7:35 PM

I am so glad people are finally noticing and complaining about this. It's the same reason I won't use Spark or Superhuman. Those are neat services, but I can't abide storing the creds to perhaps the most security-sensitive service I use to a cloud provider. If they get hacked, then the attacker can access my email account, send phishing emails to my contacts, read and respond to password reset requests they make to other online services, etc. It would be disastrous.

No, I'll keep my credentials stored and used locally, thanks.

encomtoday at 9:35 PM

So like Cloudflare for email.

amlutotoday at 4:36 PM

This seems like it would completely break any attempt to track access from unauthorized users or devices — any IT department using a backend other than Microsoft’s would need to pretend that all access from MS’s servers is safe.

koakuma-chantoday at 2:50 PM

And? Do you think Gmail is end to end encrypted?

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