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Comment by jesspugsley | Hacker News Reader

All I see when I read about this tool is the forthcoming lawsuit from Oracle.

I think that is why they have kept it. It will give them insanely high publicity. Moreover, I think they might be able to keep it too. It's not like Oracle sued Matrix team for having an Oracle. :)

Also, to the people who are saying images are not displayed in most of the email clients, browsers, don't forget smartphones where there is no option of blocking images.

Gmail on my smartphone (running Froyo) doesn't load images. In fact it has a "Show pictures" button which I must explicitly press to load images.

Android 1.6 on my G1 loads the following content before I click "Show Pictures":

iframes

inline css style tags with an @import option.

external css style tags

object embed tags

It also honours meta refresh tags and opens the standard web browser entire automatically just by viewing the email.

Can you please test Froyo using my app at https://secure.grepular.com/email_privacy_tester/

I'd be interested to know if all of these flaws still exist in newer versions of Android...

Just submitted to test. Should I get an email?

You should, unless your spam filter blocks it...?

The iPhone Mail app has a "load remote images" option that's off by default.

I thought it was on by default? I'm sure it used to be? The iPhone used to load remote content from <video> and <audio> tags even when "load remote images" was disabled. Fixed now though. I think.

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