From: Sotir Danailov <sndanailov@wired4ever.net>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: process: add privacy warning when using some SMTP servers
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:21:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ec2697e-ddc6-c87a-49a9-12483186af1d@wired4ever.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735brkfrj.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
On Thu 13 10 2022 15:35, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> So this seems to be just a description of how email works
Well it felt appropriate to warn the user, because many people
(like myself before) might not realize this is happening even if
they think they know how email basically works.
> the Received headers always show the path through the net.
Yes, but is also dependent on the SMTP server configuration,
so someone might not realize that changing the server would
add such sensitive data to something public.
> Is this really something that we need to cover in the kernel docs?
It's part of the process, is it not? I'm sure many people
would like to have this information before starting on the
kernel for the first time.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-13 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-13 12:31 sndanailov
2022-10-13 13:35 ` Jonathan Corbet
2022-10-13 15:21 ` Sotir Danailov [this message]
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