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Re: Gmail account owners?
From: Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 16:46:42 -0400
Nice Jeff .. a creative use of web bugs :-) Joel --On Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4:22 PM -0400 "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis () MIT EDU> wrote:
On 05/19/2010 03:35 PM, Jason C. Belford wrote: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?Yes. A few years ago... against a Yahoo account. The website was engineered so that when the image was viewed it would send an SMS to my phone. The IP address was on our campus and I was able to dispatch someone to "eyeball" the perpetrator.... nailed! -Jeff -- ======================================================================== Jeffrey I. Schiller MIT Network Manager/Security Architect PCI Compliance Officer Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room W92-190 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.0161 - Voice jis () mit edu http://jis.qyv.name ========================================================================
Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security Columbia Information Security Office (CISO) Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033 http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
Current thread:
- Re: Gmail account owners?, (continued)
- Re: Gmail account owners? Paul Keser (May 19)
- Re: Gmail account owners? Pete Hickey (May 19)
- Re: Gmail account owners? Behun, Michael (May 19)
- Re: Gmail account owners? Clark, Sean (May 19)
- Re: Gmail account owners? Jones, Dan (May 19)
- Re: Gmail account owners? Valdis Kletnieks (May 19)
- Re: Gmail account owners? Bruce Carter (May 19)
- Re: Gmail account owners? Jason C. Belford (May 19)
- Re: Gmail account owners? Justin Azoff (May 19)
- Re: Gmail account owners? Jeffrey I. Schiller (May 19)
- Re: Gmail account owners? Joel Rosenblatt (May 19)
- Re: Gmail account owners? Jesse Thompson (May 26)