Your inbox is full of spyware-riddled emails that are both potentially very harmful to you and also very easy to disable
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3ADEN)
It is routine for companies -- and even individuals -- to send emails with "beacons," transparent, tiny images that have to be fetched from a server. Through these beacons, companies can tell whether you've opened an email, whom you've forwarded it to, and even your location from moment to moment. (more")