I do not find your faq answer and your article on security very reassuring.
helps: http://help.airdroid.com/customer/portal/articles/1642081-about-https
http://help.airdroid.com/customer/portal/articles/1301287-is-airdroid-secure-
You write:
"In LAN Connection Mode and Lite Mode (Non-HTTPS), all data is transferred on the same local area network and not exposed to the Internet, the safety can be guaranteed (Do Not use it under untrusted network to avoid potential danger, e.g. public Wi-Fi). " [emphasis added]
This grossly overstates the case. So... it is guaranteed safe, but don't use it if the network is not itself safe?
This is like saying a phone is waterproof when you actually mean "well, it won't get wet as long as you keep it in a plastic bag" The phone is not waterproof, the bag is... if the bag is sealed properly, not punctured, and not already maliciously filled with water by some sneaky person (oh, and a goldfish while they're at it).
Please consider changing it to say something along the lines of:
LAN Connection Mode and Lite Mode (non-https) are intended for use on trusted networks only and therefor not encrypted. For all other cases please use the following secure modes...
This gets around the problem of claiming it is guaranteed secure when it is absolutely nothing of the sort, as you say in the surrounding sentences. The current wording seems all too like the stuff we see from companies all over the web: "We care about your privacy. Your privacy means more to us than a stadium full of puppies. We would rather sell our own daughters to unknown strangers just escaped from supermax prisons than share even the tiniest bit of your private data." when they don't actually say they won't share it -because they can't, their whole business plan relies on selling your secrets to everyone they can. In otherwords, just seems like you are avoiding the truth by saying happy things. (OK, you aren't really as bad as them - but it this is the interhighway, the superwebs, the hypertoobs, and if I don't make outragous exagerations you clearly won't understand that I care).
The actual situation seems fine, just state it as it.
Thank you!
helps: http://help.airdroid.com/customer/portal/articles/1642081-about-https
http://help.airdroid.com/customer/portal/articles/1301287-is-airdroid-secure-
You write:
"In LAN Connection Mode and Lite Mode (Non-HTTPS), all data is transferred on the same local area network and not exposed to the Internet, the safety can be guaranteed (Do Not use it under untrusted network to avoid potential danger, e.g. public Wi-Fi). " [emphasis added]
This grossly overstates the case. So... it is guaranteed safe, but don't use it if the network is not itself safe?
This is like saying a phone is waterproof when you actually mean "well, it won't get wet as long as you keep it in a plastic bag" The phone is not waterproof, the bag is... if the bag is sealed properly, not punctured, and not already maliciously filled with water by some sneaky person (oh, and a goldfish while they're at it).
Please consider changing it to say something along the lines of:
LAN Connection Mode and Lite Mode (non-https) are intended for use on trusted networks only and therefor not encrypted. For all other cases please use the following secure modes...
This gets around the problem of claiming it is guaranteed secure when it is absolutely nothing of the sort, as you say in the surrounding sentences. The current wording seems all too like the stuff we see from companies all over the web: "We care about your privacy. Your privacy means more to us than a stadium full of puppies. We would rather sell our own daughters to unknown strangers just escaped from supermax prisons than share even the tiniest bit of your private data." when they don't actually say they won't share it -because they can't, their whole business plan relies on selling your secrets to everyone they can. In otherwords, just seems like you are avoiding the truth by saying happy things. (OK, you aren't really as bad as them - but it this is the interhighway, the superwebs, the hypertoobs, and if I don't make outragous exagerations you clearly won't understand that I care).
The actual situation seems fine, just state it as it.
Thank you!
