On 4/27/05, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hum.
Can anyone figure out a way to determine if one's hotmail, etc...has been looked at or not?
By whom? Someone at hotmail, or someone who got your password and logged in as you? Hotmail shows mail that has already been viewed in a different color than mail you haven't looked at yet. So it would be obvious if someone else logged in as you and read your email. But of course there is no way to know what insiders are doing. Maybe you could explain your attack concept more clearly.
The only thing my limited mind can think of sounds superficially like it won't work:
Use a gmail account to forward all email to some routine that time-stamps and then hashes the message+timestamp and then sends the email on to the hotmail account.
What would this accomplish? That is, what attack would it make more difficult? Are you worried that someone is intercepting your email en route to hotmail, reading and delaying it, then passing it on? And you hope to detect the unwarranted delay? CP