[MlMt] one pixel tracker images

Bill Cole mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com
Thu Mar 18 22:58:03 EDT 2021


On 18 Mar 2021, at 11:31, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> It can't tell if it's a 1x1 image until after it's downloaded, by 
> which
> time the damage has been done.

It can tell if the IMG tag includes width & height attributes, which it 
almost always will in HTML mail, as it is critical for doing partial 
rendering if the image isn't available.

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Bill Cole
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