From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F338BC433FE for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229617AbiJMPVV (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:21:21 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:58988 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229484AbiJMPVS (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:21:18 -0400 Received: from wilbur.contactoffice.com (wilbur.contactoffice.com [212.3.242.68]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6717510F8A1; Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpauth1.co-bxl (smtpauth1.co-bxl [10.2.0.15]) by wilbur.contactoffice.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B84E3D55; Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:21:15 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1665674475; s=20220911-jt8y; d=wired4ever.net; i=sndanailov@wired4ever.net; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:References:Cc:From:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; l=747; bh=kgZc3tu2JJFZWYmDuyz5w4nLD0OZb6n0f9H+SCQhHIY=; b=cYTExjZZdbexKtEmSAIkIJrmXWfhg3DlRk8G4pmYviVVOSBahBw/1wCe0IOyxov4 YM6LpNcixT1l2kdmVBfckf2YPaii/XuZnzz5PIEu9+WNtSgQSyNM4rGhEOrBqyo+Sor GCT/wQjDKRWDV3iPVMTWnlGU5q0xPFXROvzBUrMCyQPVC4EiHer9OuGe64VG4+ixJ5W eqxjN6bHBkaymbYSeQjN3ssgGZJENCFBCPCKmcFDRVFp6H8RkbwzitYHNc5GtCRJVcH iWzQAKv0E4hkwTxlnyI06T4/t47jVvjqEKCZsNMh6KY4D+ms8j7ehgWCp4tfE2QsHvL CxLcySd0kA== Received: by smtp.mailfence.com with ESMTPSA ; Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:21:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4ec2697e-ddc6-c87a-49a9-12483186af1d@wired4ever.net> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:21:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.3.1 Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: process: add privacy warning when using some SMTP servers Content-Language: en-US To: Jonathan Corbet References: <20221013123115.17419-1-sndanailov@wired4ever.net> <8735brkfrj.fsf@meer.lwn.net> Cc: Randy Dunlap , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sotir Danailov In-Reply-To: <8735brkfrj.fsf@meer.lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ContactOffice-Account: com:378009619 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.