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Re: Gmail account owners?


From: "Jason C. Belford" <jason.belford () OIT GATECH EDU>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:35:08 -0400

On Wed, 19 May 2010 13:49:11 EDT, "Behun, Michael" said:
Consider sending a note to the account, asking to stop the activity.
In the message put the note as an image on your webserver.

The preferred image is a 1x1 pixel transparent GIF - kind of tough to
spot unless you have *really* good eyes. ;)

In my experience, Gmail accounts do not show remote images by default.  Getting the user to actually push the "Display 
Images Below" would be the only way that the image would be requested (and thus IP identified).  Has anyone used this 
method and actually been successful?

--Jason

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Jason C. Belford
Information Security Manager
Office of Information Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Phone: (404) 894 - 6159

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