On 04.04.2014 20:24, water lilies wrote: > Seth, I am getting at that K-9 downloading a cached copy of e-mails > locally is violates privacy because: > > (1) not disclosed in wiki; There is nothing to disclose. It's fairly obvious K-9 Mail and most other email clients work this way.
> (2) not encrypted; See my first mail. Again, fairly obvious. > (3) not just a copy of emails but a complete copy of viewed attachments; Attachments are part of the message. > (4) CVS images; Not sure what you found there. But why would this be different from messages/attachments? > (5) hackers coulc remotely access this; Now you're just making things up. > (6) Verizon, Motorola, Google, NSA, FBI, CIA could remotely access this; If you believe that, there is no way to securely use your device at all. Because every additional security could be circumvented by them (e.g. if the data was encrypted they'd just wait for you to provide your secret; same if the data wasn't stored on the device at all) > (7) Anyone who gains physical access to my smartphone coulc access this; There's an easy fix. Use full device encryption. > (8) Linux for desktops does not do this. My laptops are linux boxes. > Linux has safeguards privacy which is why I use Linux. If I wanted a > backdoor, I would use Windows. Android is based on linux. Why the > privacy violations? Sorry for sounding condescending. But that sounds like you don't know how real software works. > On Friday, April 4, 2014 5:27:01 PM UTC+2, water lilies wrote: > > [...] They contained the entire content of the emails that were > pulled from fastmail.fm <http://fastmail.fm> server. > It's funny that you are concerned about how your email is stored on a device you have physical control of, but not how it's stored on a server you have absolutely no control over. On a side note: K-9 Mail never stores PGP-encrypted messages in its decrypted form. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
