tech ping
Hi 2nd...
for those who would rather not cc the NSA on their every thought there is www.readnotify.com.
It cost a little but well worth the cost. It tracks every email that you append .readnotify.com to the end of their email address.
Number of times they open it, number of times it is forwarded, etc.
good stuff
Lurking’
“you can see when someone has read your email”
Does that include the NSA? Can you see when the NSA has read you’re email?
(No, I didn’t read the entire article.)
Little of this tracking stuff will work if you use a decent email client. Thunderbird won’t load =any= remote content unless you tell it to.
They know because when you open the email, it contains a hosted image, it queeries a website to load that image and that website knows that you have provided that image. Therefore each time you open that image, that website send that image again, so it knows if you looked once or twice.
I mean, i know you think right inside your text only formatted emails, but there’s a 1×1 pixel image cleverly being used to see where someone is located when they opened the image (thanks to the IP request of the device) and how many times (user behaviour). Yeah there are caveats, cached images, images off be default but overall you saying its impossible is simply you not even having read the article.
Guess best thing is to turn off loading of images unless it's a trusted site.