[LINK] Fwd: MR72/2010: Hector’s World™ teaches children important online security lessons [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Ivan Trundle]

On 14/06/2010, at 4:30 PM, Fred Pilcher wrote:

> Tony wrote(?):
> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> Am I the only one who has a problem with this? (Not with the Esteemed 
> Tony, of course.)
> 
> I'm assuming that this is advertising inserted by the iPhone itself, not 
> something intentionally typed by Tony.

It's a standard .sig, and it is added by default to iPhones and iPads. It's a trivial thing to change. Some people prefer to NOT change it.

> If so, can you turn it off? Assuming not, I find the concept of an ad 
> being inserted by a device, ostensibly without the owner's express 
> permission, horrifying.

I actually find it useful, because it tells me how the person responds, and by knowing the interface, I can gauge a degree more about the sender's state than if it had a regular .sig. I don't see it as advertising any more than any other aspect of someone sending me an e-mail, from whatever location: at least it isn't the regular .sigs inserted by Yahoo and hotmail, which are totally ludicrous and often either offensive or hilarious, depending on what the author had written (and which is oblivious to the author).

Of course, long headers can give me this information, but I don't bother to read long headers unless I am troubleshooting.

iT

Sent from my laptop