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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Mail insecurity
Date: 11 Jan 2015 14:27:23 GMT
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On 2015-01-11, Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> wrote:
> On 2015-01-11 08:10:54 +0000, android said:
>
>> 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
>
> What is that other than idle speculation?

Pure bone-headedness fueled by ignorance and jealousy.

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