-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ricardo,
@23 April 2002, 19:38:01 -0300 (23:38 UK time) Ricardo M. Reyes wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ok, I get it. Although I think it should be optional, because I see > it as a privacy problem, and not a really big "security problem". > The current behavior should be the default, but I would like to have > the option of seeing the mails complete. don't you? It's more of an issue than that!!! Here's the thing. Email is off-line. HTTP GET protocol is online and the responsibility of a web browser and web browser technology. Email programs that allow you to use GET technology to read images that reside on servers (because that's what actually has to be done to show these images) usually resort to calling the installed browser APIs to do it "by proxy". HH>> The sender of this mails can set and read cookies with HH>> this webbugs. > Are you sure they can do that? Not only can they, they *do*. > I know they can track the request of the image, but I don't know > about the cookies. They can do both, since the "GET" has to defer to a full-scale browser call to do the job and opens *all sorts* of holes in your system. > that's one of the reasons I switched to TB from Outlook I do know that the guys at RIT have been looking at ways of downloading out-of-line images but it will be on an "approve per image" basis. Let's face it, you'll get a much better rendition of *that* sophisticated an HTML message by double clicking on it and launching it in a browser window <g>. - -- Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- List moderator SB! v1.60d/iKey1000-5523848F0B1 on Windows 2000 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 · -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE8xeY2OeQkq5KdzaARAgo1AKCykfDkU1KIw5sQUE5d1/XIkCFztACg45i/ uPoAh6IMW5XSsw208e59vDg= =20Pf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60c FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
