Re: [Full-Disclosure] Is the FBI using email Web bugs?

["Wolfram Schlickenrieder" <lists@schlicke.net>]

Hi, 

> > Why don't you guys just cut to the root of the problem and not use
> > mail clients that access files on other people's servers when you read
> > your mail.  HTML e-mail sucks.
> >
> 
> You don't HONESTLY think that is what makes you safe in email do you?

I actually do.  

Using XEmacs/vm or rmail, email still looks like back in the
old days, when email was just ... text.  Well, actually, it
still *is* text :)  People can send me what they want, virii,
html garbage, whatever, and nothing bad ever happened when I
read my mail.

So, why should I not believe that I am safe with that setup?
(Provided, of course, that we are speaking about "private
use" and not "company-wide setup" or issues of "malicious
users"; of course I could explicitly detach malicious
attachments and explicitly execute them etc...)

?
Cheers,
Wolf

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