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In reply to the discussion: What Your Email Metadata Told the NSA About You (The AtlanticWire) [View all]limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)But I think maybe it is up to the sending server whether or not to include the field, so email recipient can see the originating IP address.
A few people do run email servers at home. Hobbyists, people who have a reason to do it for work, paranoid people.
OK so let's say this. There are 2 different things.
1) There are email headers
2) There are email server logs
Those are two different things. So you're thinking the gov't only has access to the server logs, and not the headers which would be stored in the mailboxes. I think that's what you meant.
So then I would say hey the email server logs must include the ip address of the connecting party. Just like a web server log. So I don't buy the idea that the government doesn't have access to IP addresses and the easy ability to match that to an email address, and a real name, even if it might take an extra step.