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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Mail insecurity
Date: 11 Jan 2015 14:28:31 GMT
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On 2015-01-11, android <here@there.was> wrote:
> In article <m8tets$2ak$1@news.datemas.de>,
>  Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-01-11 09:09:38 +0000, android said:
>> 
>> > In article <m8tcsj$uj1$1@news.datemas.de>,
>> >  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?
>> > 
>> > You didn't read the article, did you?
>> 
>> Actually, I did.
>> 
>> Here's what it said:
>> 
>> "A preview of the unopened emails was shown by Spotlight, which 
>> revealed to the operator of the server hosting the pixels the 
>> receiver’s IP address, current OS version and some details about the 
>> browser used as well as the version of Quick Look, a program that let’s 
>> users preview a document."
>> 
>> So basically, IP address plus some generic info about the computer being 
>> used.
>> 
>> Nothing about "receipts on all the mails you've kept inside the Mail 
>> database"...
>> 
>> ...whatever you think you meant.
>
> But it does. The most common receipt is to tag files downloaded when the 
> mail is opened. That happens when Spotlight indexes the Yosemite Mail 
> database to generate previews.

Wrong. Previews aren't generated before users ask to see the preview.

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