This extension causes your thunderbird to send details about every email
you open to a CGI on taubz.for.net.
Can't it be written to cause Thunderbird to use DNS directly instead?
I'm a bit worried about the privacy issues there...
Other than that - it seems pretty keen :-)
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Re: Why does this use HTTP instead of DNS?
by Joshua Tauberer - Nov 23rd 2004 06:13:09
> Can't it be written to cause Thunderbird
> to use DNS directly instead?
>
> I'm a bit worried about the privacy
> issues there...
Yeah, but I challenge you to write a portable extension that does
everything in JavaScript. Way difficult, and maybe not even possible.
Plus, I posted the source code for the HTTP server script on the site, so
if you're concerned about privacy, you're free to set up your own private
system.
Everything in life is a tradeoff. In this case, phishing protection
versus total privacy.
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Re: Why does this use HTTP instead of DNS?
by Joshua Tauberer - May 26th 2007 10:28:32
In the last two years, the extension was rewritten to do SPF queries on its
own, without contacting my web server, and DomainKeys checks are turned off
by default, so the privacy concerns have been addressed.
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