Didtheyreadit.com just another, yawn, web bug [priv]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Didtheyreadit just another webbug
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:14:47 -0400
From: Neil Schwartzman <neil () peteMOSS com>
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>

Curiosity got the better of me, so I signed up for a free account at
the latest privacy-violating net thingie ... Didtheyreadit.com

As I have Eudora set to NOT automatically download html bumph, and
sure enough a 1x1 pixel white-coloured bug at the end of the test
message from me to me.

Gee, how tricky! ;-)

Behold:

> Received: from SMTP-In.Mail-Filters.com [207.155.233.194] by mail.petemoss.com
>   (SMTPD32-7.14) id AAE195B003E; Mon, 24 May 2004 15:44:49 -0700
> Received: from zorro.sf-bay.org ([192.83.249.28]) by 
> SMTP-In.Mail-Filters.com (SpamCure [SCAL200405222227] by 
> Mail-Filters.com); Mon, 24 May 2004 14:31:49 -0000
> X-Mail-Filters-MessageID: 200405241431496910000000
> Received: (from smap@localhost)
>         by zorro.sf-bay.org (8.12.9p2/8.9.3) id i4OEVnZb049744
>         for <neil () cauce ca>; Mon, 24 May 2004 07:31:49 -0700 (PDT)
>         (envelope-from neil () peteMOSS com)
> Received: from dtri3.rampellsoft.com(69.90.152.226, HELO 
> dtri3.rampellsoft.com) by zorro.sf-bay.org via smap (V1.3)
>         id xma049741; Mon, 24 May 04 07:31:39 -0700
> Received: from dtri3.rampellsoft.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
>         by dtri3.rampellsoft.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i4OEVPU0014167
>         for <neil () cauce ca>; Mon, 24 May 2004 10:31:25 -0400
> Received: (from root@localhost)
>         by dtri3.rampellsoft.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i4OEVPQX014165;
>         Mon, 24 May 2004 10:31:25 -0400
> To: <neil () cauce ca>
> Subject: did they read it test
> Mime-version: 1.0
> X-sender: neil () petemoss com@popmail.petemoss.com
> Message-id: <p0610051ebcd7b79ef0d5@[192.168.0.101]>
> Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:31:17 -0400
> From: Neil Schwartzman <neil () peteMOSS com>
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>         boundary="=_26c101c04e023e536aeb7d6caf2a064e"
> X-RCPT-TO: <neil () petemoss com>
> Status: U
> X-UIDL: 366913470
>
> <x-html><!x-stuff-for-pete base="" src="" id="0" charset=""><br />
> blah de blah<br />
> <br />
> <br />
> <br />
> -- <br />
> Neil Schwartzman - Publisher, spamNEWS<br />
> peteMOSS Publications<br />
> &#60;http://peteMOSS.com&#62;&#60;http://spamFLAMES.com&#62;<br />
> spamNEWS - the BLOG &#60;http://spamNEWS.com/blog/&#62;<br />
> ------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
> "Internet access providers, companies that engage in the business<br />
> of connecting people to the Internet for profit ... assume the<br />
> role of Internet censors, arbitrarily closing accounts of those of<br />
> whom they disapprove." - Martha (C&#38;S) Siegel<br />
> ------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
> <br />
> <br><img 
> src="http://didtheyreadit.com/index.php/worker?code=a28e7ad42e7ca17174572b5b8737f6b4"; 
> width="1" height="1" />
> </x-html>


It is also a trivial matter of filtering against
dtri3.rampellsoft.com if someone wants to prevent any outbound info.
Heck, this is something AlJazeera have been offering on their webmail
for free for some time, minus the geographical location data
Didtheyreadit.com offer, itself rather meaningless.

Yet another tempest in a teapot.
--
Neil Schwartzman - Publisher, spamNEWS
peteMOSS Publications
<http://peteMOSS.com><http://spamFLAMES.com>
spamNEWS - the BLOG <http://spamNEWS.com/blog/>
------------------------------------------------------------------
"Internet access providers, companies that engage in the business
of connecting people to the Internet for profit ... assume the
role of Internet censors, arbitrarily closing accounts of those of
whom they disapprove." - Martha (C&S) Siegel
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