Fastmail Have Fixed a Privacy Fail
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In the Fastmail web email client, doing print to PDF on a search-found message having attachment would leak the search query into the PDF - invisible completely in preview and invisible in the PDF except to someone hovering over the attachment name.
Until recently. This is now fixed.
You might want to sanitise any previously stored PDFs before sharing.
Unverified by me is a report that folder names too could be leaked.
Fastmail fixed a privacy issue where search queries could be leaked into PDFs of email attachments.
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