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Can someone verify this with an iOS5 device. On iOS 6.1.3 this doesn't work anymore though. But someone just claimed this on the blog: "I ran a test using my iPhone 5 and a compute…

Interesting. But Apple provides protection API for Core Data as well as a part of their SDK.

One need to handle security differently for mobile devices and for laptops. When it comes to the example I gave above in one case a person can read the contents of the files, in an…

How about making it more secure! Won't it solve the problem? It's just not about Mailbox app it's about all the apps that should protect user's data. Should they care about their u…

One can keep a secret key anywhere other than Document or Library directory of such apps. One of the obvious place will be device keychain.

There are so many things one can do if he/she has access to your entire mail folder or contacts (by copying it using iExplorer or similar forensic tools) Vs just browsing few email…

@tmpajk How does it make Mailbox more secure. Let's talk about the scenario where you have access to an iPhone for few minutes. In one case, you can go through some contents, in an…

Having said the above, one can copy all the contacts and emails of someone in few seconds. This is different than just browsing an email on UI (one would need time for that). What …

On any app that consists of sensitive information, one should probably implement passcode security on the application itself. Now this might annoy some users, but if you know you a…

This is correct @nezza. I should have verified this with my friend's iPhone first. But the original issue still remains the same which is the files are not protected!

Mailbox iOS app is not even using file protection API that iOS SDK provides by default.

Interesting way of looking into things, I would definitely give it a try. It might be real useful for getting feedback for certain things.