Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: android Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Mail insecurity Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 15:42:19 +0100 Organization: the center Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <54b034cb$0$56564$c3e8da3$38634283@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net h2w7rTImqdgc8BQQhhihPAKJLEEbfZY+jNKmRLUPD/Ia2D8FhF X-Orig-Path: here Cancel-Lock: sha1:8XxXFn8iQ2M62+raF+zqYJdT92M= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:68240 In article , Jolly Roger wrote: > On 2015-01-11, android wrote: > > In article , > > Jolly Roger wrote: > > > >> On 2015-01-09, Warren Oates wrote: > >> > >> > 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... -- teleportation kills