Re: The netsec thread

[Andy Moreton]

On Tue 24 Jul 2018, Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Noam Postavsky <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 24 July 2018 at 07:54, Andy Moreton <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Something is broken in read-multiple-choice if it shows "Continue
>>> connecting?" that many times (also hinted at by the triggering of
>>> frequent garbage collections).
>>
>> I've opened Bug#32257 for this.
>>
>> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32257
>>
>
> Regardless of the issue in rmc, NSM probably shouldn't even pop up a
> modal in certain applications like Gnus and EWW when one document may
> trigger multiple TLS connections. This is where we should take a page
> from the browsers and email clients. For Gnus, introduce an option to
> stop the downloading of images in HTML emails, so the sender cannot
> track you. For email and EWW, if the TLS connections to load the
> assets of the same email or webpage are insecure, do not even prompt,
> but put something like [insecure content] in the mode line.

No, give people the option to control which sites are accessed at all,
for privacy as well as security (like an ad-blocker).

    AndyM