Tapbots Pastebot hack

[danrider89]

Is Ivory affected by the Pastebot hack?

Does Ivory track you too without disclosure? The privacy report for the macOS app says they don't collect data but the Pastebot app also says it doesn't when it does.

‎Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots

‎Ivory is a brand new app that brings over a dozen years of experience building the award-winning Tweetbot for Twitter, over to the Mastodon network. We obsess over every detail and put good design and experience first. Download and experience it for yourself. If you liked Tweetbot, you’ll love...

apps.apple.com

 

[chrfr]

Is Ivory affected by the Pastebot hack?

Does Ivory track you too without disclosure? The privacy report for the macOS app says they don't collect data but the Pastebot app also says it doesn't when it does.

‎Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots

‎Ivory is a brand new app that brings over a dozen years of experience building the award-winning Tweetbot for Twitter, over to the Mastodon network. We obsess over every detail and put good design and experience first. Download and experience it for yourself. If you liked Tweetbot, you’ll love...

apps.apple.com

Do you have a reference to what you're talking about with the Pastebot app?

 

[danrider89]

Their crash logs and analytics were compromised.

 

[galad]

Usually there isn't any private data in crash logs and analytics anyway.

 

[danrider89]

I don't trust Tapbots since they don't disclose their collection of analytics data.

 

[4743913]

I canceled my Ivory sub.. this and the fact that mastodon sucks sealed it.

 

[chrfr]

Their crash logs and analytics were compromised.

Is there a link for this somewhere? I haven't seen it elsewhere outside of this thread.

 

[singleshard]

Is there a link for this somewhere? I haven't seen it elsewhere outside of this thread.

DuckDuckGo had nothing, but Google always shines for stuff like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/16hh7up
It is one person making an accusation without proof, so take that as you will.

 

[danrider89]

I emailed Pastebot support asking about the undisclosed analytics tracking and if they were hacked. They replied that their apps are secure, they don't collect analytics from any of their apps, and to read the privacy policy. But that's a lie because their apps send analytics data. You can see it with Little Snitch.

Does anyone have a contact for one of their developers?

 

[danrider89]

I discovered an open source app called Ice Cubes. I'm not using any Tapbots apps anymore.