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| Durafei |
Well, Well, Well..
| quote: | Rampell Software's DidTheyReadIt email tracking service has been the subject of significant controversy since its June launch. To its founder's surprise, it has also emerged as a key tool for families to track down runaway teens and other missing persons, through e-mail tracking that provides an approximate location of where the email was read, as well as the date, time and other key information. Now, as Rampell Software enhances its flagship software's location tracking features, the company will provide DidTheyReadIt free-of-charge to qualified families that are using the product to locate missing loved ones.
Rampell Software, through a partnership with Digital Envoy, the leading provider of IP Intelligence solutions, has added new 99-percent reliable location tracking technology to DidTheyReadIt as part of a slate of product improvements. The company has improved the service's ease-of-use by more tightly integrating DidTheyReadIt with Microsoft Outlook to make it fully compliant with all versions of Microsoft Exchange servers.
"When we launched DidTheyReadIt, we were surprised at the number of customers that used the technology to help successfully find loved ones. With the overwhelming success of the product's introduction, we made the decision to donate DidTheyReadIt to certain families searching for ways to locate missing loved ones, as a way of giving back to the community and to thank our early adopters," said Alastair Rampell, CEO of Rampell Software. "Key among the new improvements to our product is powerful, 99 percent accurate location tracking capability to further help this important cause, as well as superior ease-of-use for all of our customers using Microsoft Outlook and Exchange."
Digital Envoy will supply Rampell Software with its NetAcuity IP Intelligence data, enabling DidTheyReadIt to refine its ability to deliver real-time information on the email reader's location using geographical variables including continent, country, state, county, city or township, postal code, area code, ISP, domain and time zone. With accuracy rates well over 99 percent at a country level and 94 percent at a city-level worldwide, NetAcuity is the leading IP Intelligence technology on the market and is in use by some of the world's largest networks, enterprises and websites.
"DidTheyReadIt has proven to be a highly useful tool for families who are independently searching for their missing loved ones - including my own," said Paul Mooter, DidTheyReadIt client. "My family sincerely appreciates Rampell Software's assistance in helping locate our missing daughter. The product's improved location tracking accuracy will help expedite and improve efforts to locate and track missing persons in the future."
DidTheyReadIt allows users to track every e-mail sent and reports if, when, and how many times the email was read. In addition, the software tracks how long the message was read, if it was forwarded, and the reader's physical location. Once the application is installed, every time an e-mail is sent through an e-mail application it will automatically be tracked. When using AOL, Yahoo!, Hotmail, another webmail service, or a Macintosh, using the service is as simple as adding ".didtheyreadit.com" to the end of the recipient's e-mail address. The recipient will not see the added ".didtheyreadit.com", and the e-mail he or she receives looks just like any other e-mail sent. In addition to the enhanced location tracking capability and full compliance with all versions of Microsoft Exchange servers, Rampell has also added an Outlook plug-in to give its users more flexibility. Now they can choose to use the product's background tracker, ".didtheyreadit.com" extension or the Outlook plug-in to track their emails.
Pricing and Availability
The new enhanced DidTheyReadIt with advanced tracking capabilities is available for trial and purchase. The trial is free, but is limited to 10 messages. If you would like to continue using the enhanced DidTheyReadIt it is available for just $29.99 for 3 months, $49.99 for 6 months, or $69.99 for a full year. |
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And people think that gmail displaying targeted ads is a privacy issue..... :rolleyes: |
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| amb_ |
| yay for procmail filter to plaintext. |
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| loconet |
That thing has been available for a while, it's really annoying - some jackass tried it on me a while ago - good ol Mozilla Thunderbird told me about it :D.
Anyways..
Add to host file:
xpostmail.com 127.0.0.1
or blacklist that host in your spam filters or block that host from your firewall/routers ..should hold for a while. |
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| Jayx1 |
| there should also be a didtheyreadit blocking device offered free just like *67 on your phone. |
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| Funkyfun |
Interesting technology but doesn't serve the purpose...Tested web based email messaging services -- gmail to hotmail , gmail to rogers bb email-- where meat of the email userbase lies and found the following...
If the delivered message is opened on a HH which has an Html compatible browser it can't be tracked as opposed to what the site says on 'how it works' page
If the message is opened from the email provider's site using a browser on a PC....It gets tracked but the geogrpahical info is wrong as it reveals the location of the Mail server instead of the reader :whip: |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by amb_
yay for procmail filter to plaintext. |
Also for turning off remote image/object loading in Thunderbird! :p
Spammers have been using this tracking trick for AGES, and even before the spammers started it, there was a free service with a name like itraceyou that did the same thing. These folks are a little late on the technology bandwagon, they're just the first ones in the marketing bandwagon. |
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| Durafei |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Spammers have been using this tracking trick for AGES, and even before the spammers started it, there was a free service with a name like itraceyou that did the same thing. These folks are a little late on the technology bandwagon, they're just the first ones in the marketing bandwagon. |
Dude - where are you getting your information from ??
Read THIS:
README
They've patented the technology.. :rolleyes:
EDIT: I should clarify this.. The company that provides the e-mail service gets the technology from DigitalEnvoy which were the first ones to be able to determine geo location from IP address. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Durafei
Dude - where are you getting your information from ??
Read THIS:
README
They've patented the technology.. :rolleyes:
EDIT: I should clarify this.. The company that provides the e-mail service gets the technology from DigitalEnvoy which were the first ones to be able to determine geo location from IP address. |
Yes lovely, they have a technology that helps get a location from an IP address. They still need a bloody IP address, which they can't get if the message is read in plain text format!
Geez, get off your high horse :rolleyes: |
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| Durafei |
| quote: | Originally posted by Funkyfun
Interesting technology but doesn't serve the purpose...Tested web based email messaging services -- gmail to hotmail , gmail to rogers bb email-- where meat of the email userbase lies and found the following...
If the delivered message is opened on a HH which has an Html compatible browser it can't be tracked as opposed to what the site says on 'how it works' page
If the message is opened from the email provider's site using a browser on a PC....It gets tracked but the geogrpahical info is wrong as it reveals the location of the Mail server instead of the reader :whip: |
You couldn't be more wrong.. I've just sent an e-mail from my gmail account to my hotmail account, I then read the e-mail in my hotmail account, and not more than 30 seconds later I received an e-mail in my gmail account, which even told what kind of browser I was using to read the e-mail in my hotmail account!!! Geo Location info sucked though - it just told me that I was in the USA, for some reason it wasn't any more specific than that.
PS. You can try the service for free for first 10 messages. Give it a try :) |
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| Durafei |
| quote: | Yes lovely, they have a technology that helps get a location from an IP address. They still need a bloody IP address, which they can't get if the message is read in plain text format!
Geez, get off your high horse |
Dude, I posted an article and you immediately posted some BS about how some other company and even hackers were doing that stuff much earlier then them....
I just don't like it when people post BS without veryfing their information first just in order to sound knowledgable. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Durafei
You couldn't be more wrong.. I've just sent an e-mail from my gmail account to my hotmail account, I then read the e-mail in my hotmail account, and not more than 30 seconds later I received an e-mail in my gmail account, which even told what kind of browser I was using to read the e-mail in my hotmail account!!! Geo Location info sucked though - it just told me that I was in the USA, for some reason it wasn't any more specific than that.
PS. You can try the service for free for first 10 messages. Give it a try :) |
Dude, that's easily obtainable information with any CGI script. It just works on the principle that the person who is reading the message is using web mail, or a client with an integrated browsing engine.
Just one more reason why I've always hated web mail and use POP/shell mail instead. |
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| rabbitjoker |
I hear you can get these chips that they implant in your skull that let them monitor your thoughts.
crazy man! bonkers! :eek: |
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