[funsec] Who is snooping on my email?

[Aditya Deshmukh]

You just said this on a public open channel now 
Nsa will keep this in mind while monitoring 
Every email :)

Merry Christmas and happy thinking about evading 
The 3 letter agencies



 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org 
> [mailto:funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org] On Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 7:41 PM
> To: funsec at linuxbox.org
> Subject: [funsec] Who is snooping on my email?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> With all of the controversy about the news that the NSA has 
> been monitoring,
> since 9/11, telephone calls and email messages of Americans, 
> some folks
> might
> now be wondering if they are being snooped on.  Here's a 
> quick and easy
> method to see if one's email messages are being read by 
> someone else.  
> 
> The steps are:
> 
>    1.  Set up a Hotmail account.
>    2.  Set up a second email account with a
>        non-U.S. provider. (eg. Rediffmail.com)
>    3.  Send messages between the two accounts
>        which might be interesting to the NSA.
>    4.  In each message, include a unique URL
>        to a Web server that you have access to its
>        server logs.  This URL should only
>        be known by you and not linked to from
>        any other Web page.  The text of the
>        message should encourage an NSA monitor
>        to visit the URL.
>    5.  If the server log file ever shows this 
>        URL being accessed, then you know that
>        you are being snooped on.  The IP address
>        of the access can also provide clues
>        about who is doing the snooping.
> 
> Besides monitoring the NSA, this same technique can be used 
> if you suspect
> your email account password has been stolen or if a family member or
> coworker is reading your email on your computer of the sly.  
> 
> Richard M. Smith
> http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com
>   
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