I was auto-outed by an IMG tag in HTML spam

Wed Feb 18 08:18:24 PST 1998

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In <199802181346.IAA21174 at alcove.wittsend.com>, on 02/18/98 
   at 08:46 AM, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend.com> said:

>	Oh it gets better than that!  I know of one person who got hit with a
>specially formated porno-spam message.  When he opened it, the html
>message did an autorestart on his browser and <you guessed it> there he
>was browsing the porno site!  What a convenient feature!  Especially with
>you boss and co-workers in the vicinity!

This could be a good sting opperation. Send an anonymous e-mail message
that points to a childporn site. The [add your jackbooted thug
orginization here] kick in your door as soon as they get the signal that
your machine has connected to the site and downloaded the images.

Hmmmm I wonder if there is a way to get the browser to DL an image without
displaying it. The pictures would be sitting in your cache without even
knowing it. Probably not a big issue I would imagine that a jury would
convict on website logs alone even if no pictures were found on the
machine.

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