Closed Bug 974648 Opened 11 years ago Closed 8 years ago

the `inbox` file and related are not encrypted

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Security, defect)

24 Branch
x86_64
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 35308

People

(Reporter: imri_paloja, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 (Beta/Release) Build ID: 20140130123732 Steps to reproduce: When creating an hotmail account i found out that my mails are stored in plaintext. Actual results: I could read my emails containing sensitive data with just an text-editor. Expected results: You, IMHO, should not be able to read the `inbox` file. There should be atleast an option to encrypt the `inbox` file, and related.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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