full-disclosure - Is the FBI using email Web bugs?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20040108150645.03d04038@pop3.direcway.com>
From: madsaxon at direcway.com (madsaxon)
Subject: Is the FBI using email Web bugs?

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