NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide

Re:NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers world... by smoyer on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @04:10PM (#6642982)

Would anyone else be interested in inserting a private version of a tracking pixel into each of their e-mails, so that you'd get a list of IP addresses where the mail was viewed back?

It would be interesting to see where mail was read versus where it is simply passed in plain text. Crowd-sourcing anonymous data might also allow us to determine which IP addresses belong to the NSA's systems.

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Re:NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers world... by nrmilstein on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @04:18PM (#6643046)

I doubt the NSA is foolish enough to make external requests to load images in the emails they read.

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Re:NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers world... by smoyer on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @04:46PM (#6643260)

And yet they accidentally hired at least one contractor with a conscience!

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Re:NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers world... by sv123 on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @05:15PM (#6643461)

If it's passed in plain text the tracking pixel wont load.

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