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RE: Is the FBI using email Web bugs?


From: madsaxon <madsaxon () direcway com>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:09:09 -0600

At 12:13 PM 1/8/2004 -0800, Gary E. Miller wrote:

A web bug can be much more than that.  When you read an HTML email or
web page your workstation can send back gobs of information aount you.

True. And FYI, "Web bug" does not refer to "bug" as in
"software flaw," as someone who posted earlier seems
to think.  It refers to "bug" as in "concealed
listening device."

m5x

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