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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 12:16 AM EDT |
5. A method according to claim 4, wherein said decoding step does
not
automatically retrieve the data from the predetermined location when a
user decodes the
message because the user forbids the retrieval
of the data corresponding to
the URL.
Achieved by a simple check
box in the Preferences, designed to thwart the application's natural
behaviour,
as described by PolR, and found by me under Corrections after I'd first
posted.
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| Authored by: globularity on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 02:51 AM EDT |
html email is such an opportunity for deception it was turned off sometime in
2000. Plain text with all headers makes phishing very difficult. It is a pity
modern mail servers have so much junk to the headers,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 08:18 AM EDT |
At least, that's been the opinion of some who post here who are quite
pro-patent:
If someone works around a patent it's deliberate evasion - a
wrong-doing!
Of course, we keep pointing out that's perfectly
legal....
I've got my email arriving in text format as well - for
security purposes. I'm just as evil for deliberately avoiding the patent I
never knew was granted.... shucks!
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 06:56 PM EDT |
It used to be the default in most mail clients I have used that
remote images and resources were not automatically
downloaded.
That's an anti-spam and anti-tracking measure. The
default used to be to automatically download attachments. Spammers would put
their messages into images and send those as links to the attachments on their
servers. This also told them that your e-mail address was active, as they would
know when you downloaded the attachments.
It was also used by people
who wanted to know if you read their e-mail. They would send a 1 pixel "image"
with a unique name. If you opened the e-mail, your client would download the
image from their server, and that event would be logged.
Current
practice in modern e-mail clients is to making downloading resources which link
to another server (e.g. not direct in-line attachments), happen only if you ask
for them.
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