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Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?
From: |
Uwe Brauer |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME? |
Date: |
Fri, 18 May 2018 14:37:50 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> [[[ 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.
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, (continued)
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/15
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/05/16
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Andreas Schwab, 2018/05/16
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/05/16
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Andreas Schwab, 2018/05/16
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/17
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?,
Uwe Brauer <=
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2018/05/18
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Uwe Brauer, 2018/05/19
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/05/19
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Uwe Brauer, 2018/05/19
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2018/05/19
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/19
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/19
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Uwe Brauer, 2018/05/20
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/21
- Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2018/05/20