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Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 00:15:47 -0400

[[[ 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)
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