Re: Is the FBI using email Web bugs?

["Gary E. Miller" <gem () rellim com>]

Yo Paulo!

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Paulo Pereira wrote:

> Isn't it true that transparent caching systems defeat the purpose of web
> bugs?

Nope.  The benign awstats.js web bug sends back info on the victim
host as a unique http GET request.  Almost any data the bug creator wants
could be encoded in the GET.

RGDS
GARY
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