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Re: Mail insecurity

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In article <chffh6F72aeU4@mid.individual.net>,
 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> On 2015-01-11, android <here@there.was> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> You clearly don't have a good understanding of the issue at hand.
> Spotlight searches may contain email messages in the result sets.
> Naturally, if you are searching for specific terms using Spotlight, your
> result set won't include all mails in the database, since only a certain
> number of them will match your search term. Furthermore, the mere
> existence of messages in the result set isn't enough to trigger the
> problem. You, the user, must then *select* a message in the Spotlight
> results list to *preview* the message, which triggers the image to be
> displayed within the preview. That means only a select few messages that
> you specifically select and preview will trigger the problem. There's
> essentially no way for all messages in the database to be previewed
> using this mechanism in a real life scenario. Cute attempt at a troll,
> but you've failed. ; )

Most certainly not a troll... But if it was it would have been a 
successful one since you made four replies on one comment...
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Mail insecurity Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-01-09 15:06 -0500
  Re: Mail insecurity Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-01-09 12:19 -0800
    Re: Mail insecurity Jerry Bishop <jerry.bishop@nowhere.nohow.com> - 2015-01-12 11:07 -0500
      Re: Mail insecurity Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-12 16:15 +0000
      Re: Mail insecurity Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-01-12 12:06 -0800
  Re: Mail insecurity Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-01-09 15:55 -0500
    Re: Mail insecurity Wilbur Eleven <wil@nowhere.at.all.ru.ca.fr.uk.us> - 2015-01-10 08:33 -0500
      Re: Mail insecurity Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-01-10 06:30 -0800
      Re: Mail insecurity Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-01-11 09:48 -0500
  Re: Mail insecurity Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-09 21:32 +0000
    Re: Mail insecurity android <here@there.was> - 2015-01-11 09:10 +0100
      Re: Mail insecurity Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-01-11 00:39 -0800
        Re: Mail insecurity android <here@there.was> - 2015-01-11 10:09 +0100
          Re: Mail insecurity Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-01-11 01:14 -0800
            Re: Mail insecurity android <here@there.was> - 2015-01-11 10:41 +0100
              Re: Mail insecurity Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-11 14:28 +0000
              Re: Mail insecurity Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-01-11 11:48 -0800
                Re: Mail insecurity android <here@there.was> - 2015-01-11 20:56 +0100
                Re: Mail insecurity Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-01-11 12:04 -0800
                Re: Mail insecurity Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-11 20:09 +0000
                Re: Mail insecurity android <here@there.was> - 2015-01-11 21:24 +0100
                Re: Mail insecurity Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-01-11 12:28 -0800
                Re: Mail insecurity Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-11 21:49 +0000
                Re: Mail insecurity Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-01-11 23:16 +0000
          Re: Mail insecurity Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-11 14:27 +0000
        Re: Mail insecurity Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-11 14:27 +0000
      Re: Mail insecurity Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-11 14:26 +0000
        Re: Mail insecurity android <here@there.was> - 2015-01-11 15:42 +0100
          Re: Mail insecurity Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-11 14:58 +0000
            Re: Mail insecurity android <here@there.was> - 2015-01-11 16:16 +0100
            Re: Mail insecurity Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-01-11 19:01 -0500
  Re: Mail insecurity Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-01-11 13:19 -0500

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