Re: Email webbugs

[John Hicks <jhicks () justice gc ca>]

Unfortunately, this is not a 'web bug'. If you point your 
browser to http://confirm.to, you will see that it's a 
Korean company providing detailed email tracking as 
a corporate service.  You can track 30 email 
addresses for frrr, or pay $10USD for 600!!!  I have 
forwarded this information to EPIC.

John
> There is an interesting use of webbugs made by 
one outfit.  If you
> append .confirm.to to the end of the address you 
send a mail to
> it will be sent to the original address (without 
the .confirm.to).  When
> a person reads the mail on an html mail reader it 
replies to .confirm.to.
> They, in turn, send you an email specifying the 
time, IP address and
> MAC address of the machine on which the mail 
was read.
> -- 
> James A. Robbins
> Network Engineer
> The Ohio State University
> Chemistry Department