[Elecraft] The ability to send screen shots

[Bill Frantz]

On 7/30/19 at 8:22 PM, KX3.2 at ColdRocksHotBrooms.com (Lynn W. 
Taylor, WB6UUT) wrote:

>The problem is, that the moment one allows HTML formatting, it 
>brings in a whole bunch of other tools, including scripting, 
>that can do some pretty bad stuff.
>
>That's why, decades ago, the folks behind Mailman decided to strip HTML.
>
>I think most of us have our mail programs reasonably well 
>locked down, but I would still lean away from allowing HTML.

As a retired computer security guy, I run a mail agent which 
doesn't render HTML. I assume that HTML email is from marketing 
people who are more interested in bling than in information.

Also, while the HTML interpreters may have had most of their 
security bugs shaken out, they still allow tracking by the big 
tracking companies e.g. Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. When the 
mail agent fetches a piece of Javascript, the server can log 
your IP address and which piece of email issued the fetch, 
adding to the cache of information about you.

73 Bill AE6JV

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