OS X Spotlight Glitch Exposes IP Addresses and Other System Details to Spammers

[deadshift]

It's a big issue for ME

Sure I know that too - Or you have a good spam filter on your email server. All my HTML images setting are on etc. I get maybe 1 spam mails out of 500+ mails a week. Click as junk and never again.

Point is this is utterly overblown as a MAJOR issue.

I'm glad spam isn't a big issue for you. I don't want it to become one. I get ~ 1800 spam messages per day. I filter out about 90% of those at the server, and Mail.app gets a bunch of the rest. I'm not an amateur, and spam IS a problem.

Spotlight needs a singular "no automatic internet access" button. google/bing/yahoo searching on my behalf is NOT what I want. Some areas of OS X are engineered with privacy in mind, other areas ... not so much.

 

[m4v3r1ck]

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[KALLT]

I'm glad spam isn't a big issue for you. I don't want it to become one. I get ~ 1800 spam messages per day. I filter out about 90% of those at the server, and Mail.app gets a bunch of the rest. I'm not an amateur, and spam IS a problem.

Spotlight needs a singular "no automatic internet access" button. google/bing/yahoo searching on my behalf is NOT what I want. Some areas of OS X are engineered with privacy in mind, other areas ... not so much.

Geez. Isn't that a huge nuisance? Just to think that you actually have to scan your spam mailbox as well to make sure that nothing gets there by mistake. Wouldn't it be better to create a new e-mail address/account and take on a new strategy to combat spam (e.g. with disposable e-mail addresses)?