From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 18:56:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9hfk311.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1fImYQ-0000a3-Dc@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 15 May 2018 22:52:38 -0400)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 22:52:38 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> If you allow a mail user agent to render HTML for you, you expose
> yourself to various kinds of surveillance and swindles.
I don't think HTML rendering per se is the problem. The problem is
when the MUA automatically fetches stuff referenced in the email as a
URL pointing to some server.
As long as the MUA renders HTML that is only contained in the mail
message, there's no leak of private information outside of the MUA.
At least that's my understanding of the paper which was cited here.
E.g., Rmail renders HTML messages, but doesn't access external URL
references, it creates a button out of each reference that the user
needs to activate to cause Emacs to fetch the URL.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-16 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-15 8:44 Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME? Uwe Brauer
2018-05-15 9:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-05-15 19:26 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-15 21:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-05-16 8:22 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-16 9:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-05-16 9:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-05-16 8:43 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-16 9:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-05-16 10:24 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-16 10:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-05-16 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-16 8:24 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-16 9:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-05-17 3:03 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-17 7:16 ` Robert Pluim
2018-05-16 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-05-16 17:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-05-16 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-16 18:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-05-18 2:30 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-18 12:37 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-18 14:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-05-19 8:29 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-19 9:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-19 10:08 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-19 10:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-05-20 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-20 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-20 17:33 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-21 4:15 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-20 17:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-05-21 4:15 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-22 13:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-05-16 19:52 ` Joost Kremers
2018-05-17 3:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-17 3:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-05-17 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-18 2:34 ` Richard Stallman
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