Re: [Tails-dev] send-later Thunderbird add-on

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Lähettäjä: David A. Wheeler
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Aihe: Re: [Tails-dev] send-later Thunderbird add-on


> On Aug 12, 2024, at 9:31 PM, sajolida <sajolida@???> wrote:
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>> Enviar mais tarde seria algo que poderia ser incluído em versões futuras?
>> É um complemento, mas o código-fonte está online e não parece ser prejudicial, pelo que sei. Tails já vem com origem ublock com navegador tor.
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> We try to limit the extension that we include in Thunderbird and Tor Browser to the bare minimum, both to reduce the maintenance cost, to avoid confusing users with too many features, and also for security.
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> I don't think that the use cases for "Send Later" are important enough to our mission to deserve being included in Tails by default.


I can see a good case for privacy for including "send later" if sending later would hide when a given user was connected to Tor and/or using their computer. That is, if it caused the email to be sent on towards its recipient when the user was no longer running Tails.

However, if "send later" is implemented within Thunderbird itself, as I suspect it is, then it would fail to provide that kind of hiding. In fact, it might mislead a user into thinking some hiding was taking place.

> ... At first sight, I don't think that this extension would interact badly with Tails, but we would have to audit the code of the extension to be sure.


Agreed.

--- David A. Wheeler