privacy problem: text/html parts pull in network resources

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Jan 21 13:36:58 PST 2015


On Wed 2015-01-21 16:14:07 -0500, Austin Clements wrote:
> I have a fix for this on shr buried deep in an old patch series that I
> never got back to: id:1398105468-14317-12-git-send-email-amdragon at mit.edu
>
> For shr, the key is to set shr-blocked-images to ".".

I've just done this, but it doesn't seem to help.

> However, IIRC, in the current notmuch message rendering pipeline, mm
> overrides this variable with something computed from
> gnus-blocked-images.  That said, I'm not sure why gnus-blocked-images
> isn't *already* taking care of this, but that's probably the place to
> start digging.

gnus-blocked-images is set for me to the function
gnus-block-private-groups, but i don't know what that is (the function
is undocumented afaict).  Setting gnus-blocked-images to a regexp of "."
seems to work for me, though.

   --dkg


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