New email spying trick means your email could be tapped....

Hi --

This is true although the more likely "bug" that marketers use is the email address in a graphic trick. That is that link to a small see through graphic and append your email address to the end. Then when you read your mail the address is stored in their log file. Scanning the log file later shows them which addresses were valid (were opened and read), what time of day you read the mail, and possibly what region of the country/world you are in.

This is one of the many reasons I use Pegasus as my email client. It does not execute any of the javascript, external graphic calls, or even all of the virus stuff that continually plagues the programs that Microsoft calls mail readers. Plus it's free and has a 10 year track record.

http://www.pmail.com

Hope that helps.

-- Dan Butler
The Naked PC
> That is, people can snoop on your email, if
> you send email which uses HTML coding (which
> is becoming increasingly common)....

> It's through a simple Javascript code which
> can be embedded in the HTML code in your
> email....

> This is a serious problem. But fortunately,
> there is something you can do, though it
> doesn't erase the problem completely....
> That's by turning the Javascript off in your
> email reading software.

> Although the article doesn't mention it,
> probably the safest thing to do is to NOT
> send any HTML-based email at all if possible
> (and to delete any HTML code in anything you
> reply to, if possible), as well as turning
> Javascript off....

> Read the article below for more details, and
> more info can also be found at the Privacy
> Foundation web site....




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