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From: android <here@there.was>
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Subject: Re: Mail insecurity
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 09:10:54 +0100
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In article <chavn3F2b8iU3@mid.individual.net>,
 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> On 2015-01-09, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> ><http://www.itworld.com/article/2867215/glitch-in-os-x-search-can-expose-
> > private-details-of-apple-mail-users.html>
> >
> > All one line, dat.
> 
> "Insecurity"? Hardly. Emails sent to you with tracking images are
> displayed with the images. Trackers get to know you read an email they
> sent you. The world won't stop spinning, and the security of your
> computer is not compromised. Much ado about essentially nothing. In the
> mean time, Apple will naturally fix it to honor your settings in the
> Mail application.

Until then your mail app sends out receipts on all the mails you've kept 
inside the Mail database... Cute! :-p
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