Re: [PATCH v2] Omit User-Agent: header by default
authorDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Tue, 9 Aug 2016 15:28:44 +0000 (11:28 +2000)
committerW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Sat, 20 Aug 2016 23:22:21 +0000 (16:22 -0700)
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+From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>\r
+To: Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>, Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Omit User-Agent: header by default\r
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+On Tue 2016-08-09 02:02:49 -0400, Gaute Hope wrote:\r
+> Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes on august 9, 2016 1:35:\r
+>> The User-Agent: header can be fun and interesting, but it also leaks\r
+>> quite a bit of information about the user and their software stack.\r
+>\r
+> Is the message-id generated by gnus or notmuch-emacs? I could not find\r
+> the relevant code. I noticed it has an *.fsf@* part as well as the,\r
+> probably customizable, local FQDN.\r
+\r
+agreed, this is another metadata leak that we should fix, but i don't\r
+think it needs to be conflated with this one.\r
+\r
+does anyone know of a useful standard for message-id generation that\r
+would put gnus/notmuch-emacs/mml users into a larger anonymity set?\r
+\r
+      --dkg\r
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