From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME? Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 00:15:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <878t8lfgu3.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83o9hfk311.fsf@gnu.org> <87lgcjo736.fsf@igel.home> <831sebjyb2.fsf@gnu.org> <87bmdfo2b5.fsf@igel.home> <87vabl5ech.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526876100 678 195.159.176.226 (21 May 2018 04:15:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 04:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 06:14:55 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fKcDj-0008So-QR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 06:14:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48733 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKcFq-00050v-Rl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 00:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42508) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKcEp-0004Ps-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 00:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKcEo-0000Dh-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2018 00:15:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKcEe-00006E-88; Mon, 21 May 2018 00:15:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fKcEd-0007gE-Av; Mon, 21 May 2018 00:15:47 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 20 May 2018 19:34:33 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225507 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > When you're reading a newsgroup, you're reading a public resource. > Anybody can read it, so the only thing the person who controls the > external resources can determine is that somebody (at a certain IP > address) read the message. Finding out your IP address is indeed snooping, unless you change it frequently. I think we should inform users of the snooping consequence of this default. People could the decide whether to consider it acceptable. Could you add that to the doc string? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.