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Since I made a conscious effort (years ago) to remove all Microsoft products from my life, ActiveSync is another app which I have never used.
Who needs it?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if you DO have something to hide? Company secrets can be very, very valuable for someone.
Use encryption all the time, and don't use any Microsoft products. All companies that have valuable secrets should already have this policy in place.
The author seems perplexed that Motorola is not collecting information from Google or Gmail accounts. This is probably because they already have the information: remember that Motorola is owned by Google.
It's pure engineering incompetence from Motorola, not a nefarious way to collect data.
* sigh *
Well, if I must...
I believe that the keyword here is "ActiveSync," which is another Microsoft product. Since I made a conscious effort (years ago) to remove all Microsoft products from my life, ActiveSync is another app which I have never used. Who needs it?
Since lots of this data is sent through not encrypted HTTP, this means that NSA (and any other intelligence agency) can also get all this data... Then people wonder the "nothing to hide" well, you might not, but will everyone you know be bothered you are sending their e-mails around to intelligence agencies?
Given Motorola are now owned by the same Google that participates in the PRISM programme (et al), I'm really not sure the encryption matters so much.
Wait, isn't Motorola owned by Google now???
Isn't that the whole point of the Blur service...it logs into all these social services and combines them to produce a unified presentation? How else could it work?
I believe that the keyword here is "ActiveSync," which is another Microsoft product. Since I made a conscious effort (years ago) to remove all Microsoft products from my life, ActiveSync is another app which I have never used. Who needs it?
Did you even read the article? It has nothing to do with EAS or Microsoft; it's Motorola software siphoning pretty much all the user's credentials off to Motorola servers.
*" What I am going to do as a result of this discovery
As of 23 June 2013, I've removed my ActiveSync configuration from the phone, because I can't guarantee that proprietary corporate information isn't being funneled through Motorola's servers. I know that some information (like the name of our ActiveSync server, our domain name, and a few examples of our account-naming conventions) is, but I don't have time to exhaustively test to see what else is being sent their way, or to do that every time the phone updates its configuration.
I've also deleted the IMAP configuration that connected to my personal email, and have installed K-9 Mail as a temporary workaround.
I'm going to figure out how to root this phone and install a "clean" version of Android. That will mean I can't use ActiveSync (my employer doesn't allow rooted phones to connect), which means a major reason I use my phone will disappear, but better that than risk sending their data to Motorola.
I'll assume that other manufacturers and carriers have their own equivalent of this - recall the Carrier IQ revelation from 2011."*
Judging by your past comments, you are merely another Microsoft shill who believes that they can do no wrong...