ned(_dot_)freed(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com wrote:
"All of the security and privacy issues on the Web now relate to
e-mail," said Adam Shostack, director of technology at
Zero-Knowledge Systems, a Montreal-based privacy and security
company. "The shame about this behavior is that it's going on
surreptitiously and people are not given an obvious way to opt
out." [...]
There are multiple ways to parse that statement. One of them is:
mailprobs = mailprobs + webprobs
which is certainly true for HTML-over-mail, esp with mailers that don't
treat HTML mail specially.
My only comment is that such a clearly incorrect assessment of the
situation isn't worthy of a response. There are plenty of Web security
and privacy issues that have nothing whatsoever to do with email.
Do they apply to HTML mail?
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
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