How to find the IP address of a hacker, according to CSI: Cyber

Raymond Chen

The episode of the television documentary CSI: Cyber which aired on CBS last Wednesday demonstrated an elite trick to obtaining a hacker’s IP address: Extract it from the email header.

Here’s a screen shot from time code 14:35 that demonstrates the technique.

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This technique is so awesome I had to share it.

Raymond Chen

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