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Evolution Mail Users Easily Trackable Part 2


Mike Cardwell's Tech Blog. Security, privacy, and technology

In a previous blog post I wrote about how easy it is to track Evolution Mail users due to a bug in DNS prefetching. This allows a sender of an email to get the open time and IP address of the receivers DNS resolver before clicking Load Remote Content In the same blog post I referred to another bug that somebody else reported over a year ago related to link rel=preconnect, which is even worse, giving the sender of an email the IP address of the end user instead of just their DNS resolver.

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