Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email Addresses

Re:Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real... by tyre on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:39PM (#48752065)

At least in Gmail, downloading content (e.g. images) is disabled by default for suspicious emails. There is no way for the sender to know if it’s monitored unless this is disabled by explicit user action.

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Re:Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real... by godelski on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @06:08PM (#48753779)

This freaked me out the first time I used Mail. It rendered a PDF about buying bitcoin on PayPal (I don't have PayPal). Looked at the same email in Gmail and Thunderbird, it's just a PDF attachment, no message, and the sender was different. No wonder people are falling for those scams, Mail makes it easy for them.

Now if only I had a better client on my phone (never buying an iPhone again)

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Re:Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real... by bzbz on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @10:26PM (#48755698)

What made you prefer Mail to Gmail, given you don’t seem satisfied with Apple’s Mail app?

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Re:Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real... by godelski on Thursday July 02, 2026 @04:52AM (#48758448)

I prefer Thunderbird

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