On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 12:35 -0500, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 14:32 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 01/01/12 13:46, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 21:16 +0100, jdd wrote:
Le 31/12/2011 19:29, Mark Misulich a écrit :
Hi, I watched a video on YouTube the other night. When I was through watching it I emailed the url to a friend of mine via my isp's email. The email isn't connected to Yahoo or Google in any way.
The next day I received emails from Yahoo with the urls of the video that I watched, plus others in the series. I also found out that I was signed up for a yahoo group that pertained to the video, all without my knowledge.
Is there some kind of security leak in Opensuse 12.1 or Thunderbird that would allow this to happen? Maybe everyone else on the list knows why this is, but I am very surprised by it and don't understand why it happened.
how did you send the video coordinates? did you clic on "share" and copy paste the result in a mail or did you use the "mail link to" entry in Firefox? I wonder if the latter can be watched by youtube?
jdd
Hi, I clicked on the url address in the browser url window and highlighted it. Then I right clicked it and copied the url address. I then pasted the url address in the email and sent out the email. Again, the email was on my isp's email servers and had no connection to youtube, yahoo, or google.
Some things about your posts here re this "problem".
You are using Evolution and not Thunderbird to post your messages here in this thread - so where does Thunderbird come into it?
Secondly, you do not mention which browser you were/are using. If you are going to ask questions it is best to mention what applications you are using.
Thirdly, how are/did you send/ing your e-mail "via [your] isp's email? You mention Thunderbird, and you are using Evolution, which makes people conclude that it is a mailer which causing some perceived problem. However, what you don't say is that you have your mailer configured to send mail thru your ISP using a POP or IMAP or whether you sent that e-mail with the URL on-line, using the browser and logging in into your account and then posting your message. Which is the way you did it?
I have been using Thunderbird since the year dot and I have never had the behaviour you mention.
But what does come to mind is that you used your browser to do the post and your browser (whichever one it is) does not have security installed - but here I am only surmising.
BC
-- So, if a man cannot spot a problem in the making he cannot really be a wise leader. But very few men have this gift. Niccolo Machiavelli
Hi, I sent the emails with the urls in question to two of the members of the list for analysis. It turned out that the YouTube account of the videos has been closed, so the question is unresolvable at this point. Here is the input from the two list members who tried to do analysis.
I see YaHoo closed the account (so the video are no more available), so I suspect there was something wrong with them!
jdd
To begin with, both videos are no longer available because the "account associated with them has been closed", or similar words. What that means I don't know but it may mean that there was some hanky-panky behind them and YouTube closed the account following complaints. Dunno.....
The other thing is that you sent me the (above) e-mail with the addressee, me, being "Undisclosed-recipients" rather than having me as a direct entry in your address book. Who else may be in this "undisclosed-recipients" entry of yours? If I remember correctly, if one either replies to an e-mail or Copies the address the address goes into the Personal Address Book; how an address gets into the Collected Addresses book I don't know. However, I am certain that one needs to deliberately create an "Undisclosed-recipients" entry into which you then manually enter the addresses - I used to use this to send agendas and minutes of meetings to members of a committee I belonged to.
So, at this point nothing conclusive - with the exception of this "undisclosed-recipients" matter .
BTW, I am not sure if mention was made of which browser you were using to view those videos but if you are using Firefox have you considered installing these (security) extensions: Adblock, BetterPrivacy, Ghostery, NoScript?
Basil
Sorry nothing more to report, but I took Basil's suggestion to add the four security extensions to the browser, which was in fact Firefox.
Mark
Sound like somebody found a clever exploit in the YouTube overlay API. I think your security is fine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org