Closed
Bug 118338
Opened 23 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
addressbook file contains infomation about deleted people if duplicate people are created
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WONTFIX
mozilla1.4alpha
People
(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: cavin)
Details
(Keywords: privacy, Whiteboard: [adt2])
I just deleted all entries in the addressbook except one and exited Mozilla.
But if I look at the abook.mab file with a text editor I can see that it still
contains information about all the deleted people.
A true privacy issue!
Here's how to reproduce:
1. start mozilla with a fresh and clean profile
2. start the addressbook without creating a mail account, just hit cancel and
then exit in the account creation dialog.
3. create a person with First = "First", Last = "Last", Mail = "Mail@mail.mail"
4. create a second person with the same info. First = "First", Last = "Last",
Mail = "Mail@mail.mail"
5. delete both persons and exit mozilla
6. look at the file abook.mab with a fileeditor. It contains the all the
information about the person!!!!
Having duplicated persons and deleting people, doesn't "really" delete the
people!
build 20020104
Comment 1•23 years ago
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Marking nsbeta1 since the user will expect the data to be deleted. Isn't this a
privacy issue?
Keywords: nsbeta1
Comment 2•23 years ago
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I think this may be a dup of one of our bugs about not being able to compact the
address book.
Comment 3•22 years ago
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Marking nsbeta1. When entries are deleted from the UI then those changes should
be reflected in the file itself. It's also a privacy issue.
Comment 4•22 years ago
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Mail triage team: nsbeta1+/adt2
Assignee | ||
Updated•22 years ago
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Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.4alpha
Comment 6•22 years ago
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I'm not sure I agree this is a privacy issue.
if you can get to my abook.mab, you can do anything you want anyways.
why does it matter that deleted items aren't purged?
note, the same could be said about deleted mail in a local mail file, which
doesn't get removed until we compact.
we do have bugs on allowing for compaction of addressbooks, but I don't think we
want to undertake that risk right now.
Comment 8•22 years ago
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actually, won'tfix.
the deleted cards are kept around on purpose, for absync / palm sync purposes.
I know this, because it caused a regression, see #198303
and, as I said before, the same could be said about deleted mail in a local mail
file, which doesn't get removed until we compact.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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