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Geoffrey wrote:

> Dow Hurst wrote:
>
>> I'd like to hear the security experts chime in on this. I've 
>> encouraged users to disable images in Mail and Newsgroups in Mozilla, 
>> which is our default email app. However, what your doing prevents 
>> even Outlook users from getting whanged. I thought that images were 
>> able to contain embedded information or even javascripts now. Is this 
>> true? What are the current and coming threats from allowing embedded 
>> URLs? To me it seems that inherently it is a bad idea to allow this 
>> no matter how much people want to violate a practical security policy!
>
>
> You can certainly validate an email address by embedding a link to a 
> unique image in a message if the mail tool displays images.  Simply 
> create a 1x1 pixel white image and name it to be unique, as:
>
> esotericAT3times25.net.png
>
> And then send it to me.  If my browers opens the image, there'll be a 
> record of such in the web server that's serving the image.
>

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