From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 14:37:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vabl5ech.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1fJV9g-0007tZ-93@fencepost.gnu.org
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> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
> Yes, that is right.
> Referring to any external elements from HTML in an email
> exposes the user to various forms of mistreatment.
> Security in an MUA includes protecting the user from all that.
> It's often not "people". Many companies systematically use this
> security hole to track users. I am very glad that nobody can
> tell whether I have read a message -- because I do it in Emacs.
A word of warning should be added.
There are configuration in emacs, for which such a tracking is
successful.
For example using gnus the setting
(setq gnus-blocked-images nil)
Explanation.
I was not aware of this sort of tracking software and found out that
google's chrome browser has dozen of extension for email tracking, some
of them commercial. I downloaded and tried all of them, (well the ones
which did not require a payment). I then sent message to my own account
(my university switched to a google account which I access via imap).
Indeed with the above setting one extension successfully discovered that
I read an email with gnus/emacs.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-18 12:37 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
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 [this message]
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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