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Need ideas for a test - Someone is reading my emails??
Well, not my emails, my friends emails at their place of work.
The company are shady at the best of times but they have let a few things slip that could only mean they are monitoring their employees emails (work AND personal)
I am looking for ideas on how to test this, maybe a tracking image in the email? But not sure how to go about it?
Any other ideas welcome
The company are shady at the best of times but they have let a few things slip that could only mean they are monitoring their employees emails (work AND personal)
I am looking for ideas on how to test this, maybe a tracking image in the email? But not sure how to go about it?
Any other ideas welcome
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It was not a solution to getting emails through unread that I had in mind, my intention is to catch them at it and then take things further. So I need a way of knowing that someone has read an email other then the intended recipient.
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First try to come up with a reasonable list of possible suspects. Good idea for meeting at the local pub.
Look at candidates, and find out what they have in common, and what their differences are. What are the interests, what do they like to talk about? This is intended to indentify what to place in future emails. Get them an interesting topic, include details no one else knows, and then wait for the news from the water cooler.
Try Cookoo's Egg, one of the ways that was done.
You have a solid beginning somewhere, for example, you know someone is doing this. How do you know? Exploit that knowledge. Buy another round at the bar and see if you can come up with ideas of how it is being read. Does someone print it first, and then discard it, without shredding before someone raids the garbage can? I thought not. Coul another recipient of memos actually be involved in the forwarding of info to a suspect. Get friends to do a little more thought ans some discrete homework
Look at candidates, and find out what they have in common, and what their differences are. What are the interests, what do they like to talk about? This is intended to indentify what to place in future emails. Get them an interesting topic, include details no one else knows, and then wait for the news from the water cooler.
Try Cookoo's Egg, one of the ways that was done.
You have a solid beginning somewhere, for example, you know someone is doing this. How do you know? Exploit that knowledge. Buy another round at the bar and see if you can come up with ideas of how it is being read. Does someone print it first, and then discard it, without shredding before someone raids the garbage can? I thought not. Coul another recipient of memos actually be involved in the forwarding of info to a suspect. Get friends to do a little more thought ans some discrete homework
> I am looking for ideas on how
Next time, include the system administrator in the meeting at the pub. Before that, try to identify better where the lines of trust are drawn, and who knows who. Possibly, the admin would not know you were friends with the victims, and you could ask for some expertise setting up a good spy system at place you work, rumors being that your company would pay out some side money to contractor for discretionary help.
Alternatively, the admin is more nice, interested in protecting policy, and is either unhappy about company spying or is currently ignaorant and would be a valuable ally.
and alternatively, if the admin is snooping on their own, it is in company best interest to throw them out the door before getting entangled in too many lawsuits and bad publicity, leading to loss of market
Next time, include the system administrator in the meeting at the pub. Before that, try to identify better where the lines of trust are drawn, and who knows who. Possibly, the admin would not know you were friends with the victims, and you could ask for some expertise setting up a good spy system at place you work, rumors being that your company would pay out some side money to contractor for discretionary help.
Alternatively, the admin is more nice, interested in protecting policy, and is either unhappy about company spying or is currently ignaorant and would be a valuable ally.
and alternatively, if the admin is snooping on their own, it is in company best interest to throw them out the door before getting entangled in too many lawsuits and bad publicity, leading to loss of market
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Sending e-mail with password protected ZIP files with message in it,
password protected Word Document with your message, etc, etc.
Good luck