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more news from Google
- Subject: more news from Google
- From: ge at linuxbox.org (Gadi Evron)
- Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:27:34 +0200
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <255275490-1263421495-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-196880606-@bda062.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <[email protected]>
On 1/14/10 12:31 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
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> On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:26 PM, msheldon at cox.net wrote:
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>> From a single detection of one hostile email you can often expand the picture to many mail recipients. A little open source research identifies the common community the recipients belong to. It's pretty straight forward.
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> The magic phrase is "traffic analysis" -- look at the accounts of known targets of interest, and see the usernames, IP addresses, etc., of their correspondents. Recurse as needed.
I am unsure about the term straight-forward, as even the easy cases take
a lot of time.
Gadi
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> --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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Gadi Evron,
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