Anonymous emails can be traced
RESEARCHERS at Concordia University claim that it is possible to trace an anonymous email back to its sender through pattern tracing.
The researchers, presumably bored with current ways of tracing emails that often involve meandering IP searches, said that their approach has high levels of accuracy and produces results that are good enough to use in a court of law.
"In the past few years, we've seen an alarming increase in the number of cybercrimes involving anonymous emails," said study co-author Benjamin Fung, a professor of information systems engineering at Concordia University. "These emails can transmit threats or child pornography, facilitate communications between criminals or carry viruses."
