Originally Posted by
flightyryan
Hi Timmy, thanks for the enthusiasm! To not dominate the entire thread, please accept these high level answers and contact us via the app support for continuing long form.
- iCloud Drive enabled is a concrete requirement to sync Flighty between devices. Without that, you have two separate Flighty instances. See in app FAQ > Sync.
- Your Passport “Member Since” date is merely cosmetic, for fun, to represent the first day you used Flighty.
- Your flights, settings, data, etc are all stored anonymously via a combination of iCloud and our own servers. I can’t go into much more detail for security.
To continue with such situational questions, contact us via support. But for everyone’s data safety, that’s as deep as I can go on that topic.
Hi
flightyryan, thanks for acknowledging these concerns.
Although I don’t feel like I got a clear understanding on how you are managing data, I think that it would prove of interest to all your user base to divulge more about it; instead of a single support case I could create to learn more. As I’m sure you probably know, Security through Obscurity is an industry bad practice; you should be able to lay out in the open how the handling of data works (e.g. as do encryption platforms like 1Password or Bitwarden — even being open-source) and the security would be set up in such a way that there was no need to
hide anything to protect it.
In any case, I’m not interested talking further about compliance or security of the servers; even if my boarding passes were to leak from your platform, I wouldn’t care. I was just trying to understand how it worked, since your documentation was lacking in that aspect, to see if spending $250 would be wise on my hybrid scenario of MDM and personal devices living together.
You mentioned that the “Member Since” date
represents the first day I used Flighty. Yet, I’ve installed/reinstalled the app several days; on the same devices, and that date kept always changing, so I don’t know where you are persisting that, Perhaps, in the iCloud Application Data that I had disabled; hence why it didn’t stay fixed to the
real first time I used it?
If I could just sum everything up in one question, it would be this: let’s say I purchase the lifetime license today and start using the app in all platforms, would it be possible for me to reset that “Member Since” date on 2024-01-01, so I can start building my flight history from that time? If so, how would I do it? Deleting Flighty’s iCloud Application Data? Or contacting support; if that date is something you manage on your servers (although it doesn’t seem like it, since why reinstalling didn’t maintain that date).
Thanks again for your help. Looking forward to your confirmation of this last question; to see if I should stay with your app and commit to the license, or steer to a different solution. Have a great rest of the week.