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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Mail insecurity
Date: 11 Jan 2015 14:58:27 GMT
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On 2015-01-11, android <here@there.was> wrote:
> In article <chffh6F72aeU4@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> 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...

Only in a troll's mind is a completely untrue troll based on ignorance
and misunderstanding a "successful" troll. 

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