RATEL’s case on Global Voices

Danica Radovanović, web activist, researcher, PhD student in digital communications and Global Voices’ columnist for SE Europe, wrote an article for Harvard’s Global Voices. She tries to present both negative and positive sides of recent RATEL’s instructions on how to redirect and intercept Internet traffic for Internet Service Provider. She also summarizes the yesterday’s reaction of Serbian blogosphere on the published document. It might be an interesting read.

Sending e-mails…

This might be well-known, but it wasn’t to me…

They say you learn either on other’s or your own mistakes. I had to send 20-30 e-mails using business e-mail address. I have configured that e-mail in my primary Gmail account, so I can send them from there. I thought it’s secure, and that it really shows as if you’re sending from some other address. But I was wrong.

One reply I received quoted my mail and had this:

From: my@primary.email On Behalf Of my@business.email

After further testing, I have found out that there are two headers in the e-mail message sent the way I did. One is From field, which contains the address that appears when e-mail is presented to the receiver. But there is the Sender field, which shows the actual address that is used to send the e-mail. It is easily accessible. If you’re using Thunderbird, just press Ctrl+U to see the source of the message, and there will be those two fields.

I suppose this is done in order to prevent spam and fake e-mails, but I felt a bit unpleasant when I found that out. Like all of other contacts now know my private e-mail address… Oh, well. Life goes on, and I have learned something new.