A friend of mine recently asked me if it was possible to aquire somebody's email address directly, from someone hitting their website. I told him that this was not possible, as someone hitting a website is using HTTP and this cannot possibly be resolved to an email address. Although I did mention that maybe it could be done using some form of spyware/malware/trojan.
Question is, is it possible to resolve the information gained from a website hit, to someone's personal email addy?
Thanks
Jim
not without sneaking the hostile program inside the user's machine, no.
there's no such information on a router. email doesn't 'travel' by ip-adresses, other than the ip-addresses of the mail servers in the domains concerned. it's only within the mail server that the recipient's name gets associated with the ip of the recipient's machine. the packets containing http-data however, 'know' from start to finish where they're going. email-data 'knows' only the ip of the mail server + recipient's name (or the string associated to the user to be more exact, your real name is not anywhere, excluding the possibility of you owning a domain).