On Wed, 16 May 2018, [email protected] wrote:

> On 05/15/2018 01:22 AM, john wrote:
> 
> > On 05/14/18 14:58, Ángel wrote:
> >> This paper is most interesting for the discovery of multiple ways email
> >> client leak information on visualization.
> >> (not clearly stated in the paper: some of them are already fixed, while
> >> in other cases the developers are still working on providing them)
> >>
> >> Luckily, with Qubes it is easy to set a firewall rule so that your email
> >> AppVM can only contact with your email server.
> >> NB that some of these leaks are dns-based, so ideally you would not
> >> allow it to perform any dns query, either.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >>
> > can you give an example to the steps to   make such a fw rule,   if
> > it's that simple  please ?
> I would suggest simply only allowing the ports you need for your email
> client.

It's much less secure approach than blocking all but the email server 
address. With a port filter, the attacker only needs to use that same 
port for the attack to succeed.

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