On 23 Sep 2006 12:31:40 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
(Message-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Payne) wrote:
"Mr Hurd's part in the so-called "tracer email" scandal
was disclosed at a press conference
after the US markets closed last night. Investigators
looking into boardroom leaks planted
fictitious emails with journalists, hoping they would be
forwarded to the journalists'
sources. "
Hmm.
So planting false emails to try and find leaks is
scandalous, is it?
What's scandalous is the journalists' (and sources')
lack of security procedures. From what I've read, they
used web bugs in the e-mails to determine who read
them. If the recipients read e-mail with HTML disabled
(or, at least with images disabled), they could not have
been tracked that way.
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