Re: JBN users busted by NSA, proving NSA blows your privacy

From: Guy Macon (http://www.guymacon.com)
Date: 04/20/04


Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:32:29 -0700


Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> says...
>
>Alexander Petrovich writes:
>
>> Jesus you guys are dense.
>>
>> It doesn't require echelon. All you do is send someone an email WITH
>> AN URL IN IT, usually a picture or something like
>>
>> <img src=http://nsa.tracking.com/gotcha.jpeg>
>>
>> that points to a data collection center website. When Outlook gets it,
>> it tries to access that jpeg, you see it in the Apache log file at the
>> web site, and you know the person got the mail, and what his ip
>> address is.
>
>That doesn't happen if the receiver is not using Outlook.

IIRC, it doesn't happen if you have outlook and have installed the
latest security patches.

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