I wonder how I can be surprised to learn that #Mozilla's #Thunderbird collect telemetry infos (including your mail domain) and share them with partners such as #Amazon.
It's obvious they spy on your mails! 🤦♂️
Indeed, in case of crash, they even send to "their" #AWS servers a memory dump that contains sensitive data crash reports.
This likely include, your emails in clear, your private encryption keys¹ and everything else the program has loaded and kept in memory.
What does this means for an hypothetical attacker that can access such reports?
I mean... like a #USA agency arguing that you might be a terrorist or something.
Oh but sure... they shall do no evil...
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/thunderbird/
#Privacy #Freedom #hypocrisy #Security #infosec
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1) Since version 68, Thunderbird does not use the #GPG suite via #Enigmail, but directly do encryption "to avoid licensing issues" 🤷♂️
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*about:profiles
And it is in pref.js of the profiles folder. about:config allows access in the browser, but that is manual.
@Shamar
Debian seems to have them off in the pref.js file. Which indicates they put in some effort to keep telemetry junk out of the binary apt version. But doing "apt source" should give a version that you can compile on your own.
@jmw150
"Good distros"... these days I wonder if #Debian gives a shit, tbh.
So sad...
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