Hi Leif, On Thursday, October 20, 2005, 8:13:25 PM::
> I'm very disheartened to hear that you care so very little for your > fellow man. That's part of the problem with the world today. Nobody > cares, it's never anyone's fault, and it's always someone else's > problem. Is it my fault as a car driver that another driver on the road lost control of his vehicle? I don't think so. > Be a part of the solution. You say you have many years of IT > background and are working on your Masters degree. Make TB better, > apply your knowledge to implementing the feature safely. The ways you showed are nice but will never lead to any result because they are either not practicable or not to handle for an unexperienced user. You have to secure the identity of the sender (and only this would work - verifying URLs and/or images is just possible by known whitelists. And to maintain such a whitelist would be the job of each user itself). Systems to provide this security are in development. Certainly it will be still possible that somebody steals a trusted identity - an element of risk will remain ever. Regardless of what you are doing. As I said. There will ever be ways of undermining security - just the needed level of criminal offense and knowledge changes. Or the criminal needs some dumb user who clicks on every blinking "OK"-Button that is shown on the screen in front of him. There is one thing you will NEVER be able to replace: human brain 1.0 & common sense 1.0 No concept, no software, nothing will replace this. Regardless if TheBat! will display remote images or not. The mentioned dumb user will just open the HTML object in his browser because he wants another penis enlargement and that's it. So TheBat! doesn't loose any security by providing this function. The only security an email-client has to offer: Not executing scripts and active contents. (and reliable memory management to avoid useable memory leaks - which TheBat! does NOT provide! Memory management is a mess at the moment) So if you want perfect security: Turn the computer off, get it off the net and put it into a Faraday cage. ;) You have to see things pragmatically with the right objective in your view. That's my opinion. And i'm running good with it until now. regards, Michael -- Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] - OpenPGP 0xE59FD50D TheBat! 3.61.13 Echo (Beta) - Windows XP (Service Pack 2 Build 2600) Bedenke, daß Du nur Schauspieler bist in einem Stücke, das der Spielleiter bestimmt. (Epiktet)
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