dfay
February 18, 2022, 7:30pm
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Is anyone concerned about this? The fact that Readdle is based in Ukraine had made me wary of caching credentials in their apps in the past…
They seem to have diversified their locales a bit since this article came out but I wonder about server locations etc.
"Uh guys, I think we took a wrong turn somewhere."
Denys Zhadanov, the 25-year-old marketing director of Readdle, a Ukrainian app-development company, peers out from behind the wheel of his...
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Wow, I had no idea they are based in Ukraine!
Nice article. I’m not worried. They are AWS customers so even if they chose to host everything solely in Ukraine region (bad idea under any circumstance due to latency/lack of redundancy) they should be able to switch regions without entirely reconfiguring architecture. I would imagine AWS could help with the logistics in the event of war–but who knows! Pray for peace.
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neonate
February 19, 2022, 1:45am
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I, too, am not worried about this. However, I am concerned about their safety.
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WayneG
February 19, 2022, 1:45am
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No more than I am using hardware built in China.
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I dont think it is just Readdle. I gather setapp and MacPaw are Ukrainian based as well.
It is really very concerning, Good people work at these companies.
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Evan
February 24, 2022, 12:12pm
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They just talked about this today in a blog post.
Being humans of the 21st century, we all wish that the tragic days of war were a thing of the past. However, now once more, with the Russian aggression against Ukraine, we’ve been made to witness how easy freedom, independence, and the human right to...
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Just to avoid the conversation splintering, I’m closing this topic. Please continue here:
Not until the news broke out about Ukraine, I did not know that a lot of good apps & services are based in Ukraine. I learned something new everyday
this is the statement from MacPaw
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