Re: Email based attack on University
On Thursday 03 October 2019 08:05:27 rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, October 03, 2019 06:23:20 AM Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> > There have been numerous bugs with LookOut (otherwise known as
> > Outlook), running scripts and having other vulnerabilities due to
> > preview pane being open. I try to encourage people NOT to have a
> > preview pane, but people will still do what they want even if you
> > tell them it is potentially dangerous.
>
> Ahh, a preview pane -- I don't believe I've encountered that term
> before, but I'm guessing that means the pane (for example, in kmail)
> which shows the content of an email as soon as it is selected from the
> list of emails in a folder (and before you press enter, if ever, to
> open the email in a separate stand alone window)?
>
> And, I suppose then, that the same vulnerabilities that you allude to
> are present in (at least older versions of) kmail?
>
> (I'm still using Wheezy with kmail 1.13.7 as my daily driver.)
Wow! Thats newer than mine, but I'm running TDE. But the emphasis on
progress for TDE has been on fixing KDE's bugs. And TDE is generally
stable, but kmail is 1.9.10. Whats been added since? Is it usefull?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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