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This is great for pranks: you send a serious looking email to someone, and then they forward it to someone else thinking they sent some chart or whatever but th
by ldom22 11y ago
This is great for pranks: you send a serious looking email to someone, and then they forward it to someone else thinking they sent some chart or whatever but the next receiver instead sees another picture of your choosing
- myztic 11y agoOr a new way to distribute spam? ;)
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoOr spearphishing. Send a secretary something that looks like a nice business proposal, then when she forwards it to her boss it's a link to some XSS attack.
- zarq 11y agoShould be the other way around. You forward an email that's "obviously" spam, and then the abuse guys go "what do you mean, this is a regular project status update!"
- ldom22 11y agoyou can use it to send "for your eyes only" stuff. example: send an image to Mary and tell her not to send it to anyone else. She inevitably sends it to someone else, but the image magically changes to another image that says a message, maybe it says "DAMN IT MARY, I SAID DON'T SEND IT TO ANYONE ELSE!"
- cmdrfred 11y agoI'd replace it with "Mary's STD Test results" so the person who receives it will be very confused.
- btown 11y agoTrojan Phish.
- Houshalter 11y agoCan't you do that just by changing the image at the url it points to?
- cmdrfred 11y agoI believe gmail downloads and caches images when it receives the email now.
- Houshalter 11y agoWhich is even better. You can change the image right after sending it, so anyone they send it to is guaranteed to get a different image.
- breakingcups 11y agoThat brings up an interesting question. Does GMail cache per-user or per-url? I would suspect the latter.
- Houshalter 11y agoWould still work if they sent to a different email client.