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In reply to the discussion: What Your Email Metadata Told the NSA About You (The AtlanticWire) [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)22. Gah! Also, everything after the Date: field is not logged.
That's in the DATA segment of the SMTP transaction. It is not part of the message log.
How hard is it for journalists to just ask somebody who knows what they're talking about?
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or he's an asshole more bent on embarrassing US\NSA than advancing 4th amendment rights?
uponit7771
Jun 2013
#4
how are the revelations of massive surveillance of everyone embarrassing?
Warren Stupidity
Jun 2013
#5
so the revelation that the NSA has been conducting a massive surveillance of everyone does not
Warren Stupidity
Jun 2013
#10
Thought it was phone call meta data, any proof email meta data is being collected?
uponit7771
Jun 2013
#3
I suspect I am boring the shit out of them with my endless gardening emails
NRaleighLiberal
Jun 2013
#9
Ah, yes...I am talking in code. tomato...pepper...brandywine...all so subversive!
NRaleighLiberal
Jun 2013
#34
Our Medical Records are now sold by Hospitals. They say it's to give you "Support"
KoKo
Jun 2013
#19
That's probably why they used it as an example. Like when they say 555-5555 for phone numbers on TV.
limpyhobbler
Jun 2013
#25
Right, but that just says where the server I'm sending from is physically located, not me
Recursion
Jun 2013
#26
Whenever I look at email headers I see the actual IP address of the sender in there somewhere,
limpyhobbler
Jun 2013
#30
Don't know...why don't you post on Atlantic Web Site in Comments to the Reporter or
KoKo
Jun 2013
#24
Yo, how do you know they are not collecting the full headers and calling that metadata.
limpyhobbler
Jun 2013
#27