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March 11, 2003 at 08:05 AM
chih

Question about E-mail security

by chih . Updated 23 years, 4 months ago

My friend would like me to ask you about the E-mail security. She told me that her friend and she was e-mail to each other by using a free email through yahoo’s email (or hotmail). The unknown person sent an e-mail to my friend and told my friend that she/he (unknown person)read my friend e-mail, and she/he known that my friend talk about her/his (the unknow person). She/he also lets me friend know that they got my friend information (email’s address and name) from central email server. My friend is wondering how the person, who monitor Central email server, knows who is who, and if they monitor the e-mail, Do they understand all languages? As an IT person, I explain to my friend; the unknown person either know my friend’s email address by reading email that my friend sent to her friend. (That is why the unkown person knows the contain of the email and email address and name)But my friend still wants the answer from TechRepublic’s members.

I will forward your response to my friend as soon as I get it. Thank you.

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