GOP Lawmakers Receiving E-Mail Threats Over Voting 'Yes' To Debt-Ceiling Increase

[Think4Yourself]

Crazy as usual. The voted to spend the money so refusing to pay the bill would be irresponsible.

[greywar]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

Even with "shared" they can still narrow it down.
To think this email is completely untraceable is laughable given what we know already about "spying"

Corporates work with static IP's.
VPN's work with semi-dynamic IP's
ISP's work with a cluster of IP's
Individuals can work with either depending on what they do…www or VPN

You really dont understand this stuff do you?

You cannot get the ip address of someone sending an email via the gmail web interface. Google does not put it into the email headers.

Now they could get gmails records....which will get them one of the above mentioned ip number ranges. Now pick out who sent it from there. yeah good luck.

Thats assuming of course that the people sending this didnt use overseas ip anonymizers as well. Possibly even multiple ones on a throwaway account, from a random open wireless hotspot.

If on the other hand they sent it from their work at say the senate....then they deserve to be caught. But even then its not as straightforward as you might think, you cant hunt them down without some legal access.

I could suggest other ways to find these people, if they're smart they will never look at the email accounts they sent this from.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by greywar

You really dont understand this stuff do you?

You cannot get the ip address of someone sending an email via the gmail web interface. Google does not put it into the email headers.

Now they could get gmails records....which will get them one of the above mentioned ip number ranges. Now pick out who sent it from there. yeah good luck.

Thats assuming of course that the people sending this didnt use overseas ip anonymizers as well. Possibly even multiple ones on a throwaway account, from a random open wireless hotspot.

If on the other hand they sent it from their work at say the senate....then they deserve to be caught. But even then its not as straightforward as you might think, you cant hunt them down without some legal access.

I could suggest other ways to find these people, if they're smart they will never look at the email accounts they sent this from.

They had a gmx account, not a gmail account.
And why aren't they considering this a terroristic threat against Congress ?

If the NSA can crack encryption they can certainly crack this.

[greywar]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

They had a gmx account, not a gmail account.
And why aren't they considering this a terroristic threat against Congress ?

If the NSA can crack encryption they can certainly crack this.

lol, even better, the GMX accounts are based out of germany right? yeah good luck.

Can the NSA track it-very likely, why should they though? Its not a terrorist threat in any way. Thats crazy.