[rayiner]

> I've found Outlook to be the best iOS email client these days

Aside from being a massive security risk.

[tptacek]

In what sense?

[rayiner]

My understanding is that Outlook for iOS uses a cloud service that talks to the Exchange server and stores your credentials/data: https://blog.winkelmeyer.com/2015/01/warning-microsofts-outl.... So logging in involves giving Microsoft (and indirectly Amazon, since it runs on AWS), clear-text access to your information.

[Velox]

Your credentials aren't stored in clear text. They are encrypted with a key only your device has.

[wglb]

So how do these creds get to the exchange server from the cloud?

[SilasX]

So? You have no expectation of privacy in email anyway, right?

[rayiner]

My Exchange server is 15 feet down the hall. When I use a normal Exchange client, the only people who can see my data in clear-text are myself and my employer (who owns the Exchange server). Anyone in-between just sees an encrypted stream. But when I use Outlook for iOS, people I've never met at Amazon and Microsoft can see my email.

I think the former situation creates a legitimate expectation of privacy. I think the latter situation does not. Which is why I use Apple Mail instead of Outlook for iOS.

[SilasX]

Something visible to anyone in your employer's management -- hence work email in general -- doesn't have an expectation of privacy.

[rayiner]

The company has an expectation of privacy with respect to those emails. Its employees aren't third parties with respect to it.