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Email Privacy is Lost
Scott Granneman, 2004-07-29

As if the common use of "web bugs" inside spam was not enough, companies are using new techniques to watch and track the private emails you read, forward, print, and more.

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[COMMENT] Email Privacy is Lost 2004-08-03
Bob Radvanovsky
To reply, no, privacy isn't entirely lost. There are capabilities within the SMTP protocol that permit (for sake of better terms) "piggybacking" in which text-based steganography *may* be utilized. The proof-of-concept is tedious and slow, but I have written a whitepaper that *could* show how it c...

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