Quality journalism…
Someone on the Digital Detective forum posted about an article in the Times, describing a supposed link between Muslim terrorists and child porn. Below is my reaction to his post, that I think would also fit here. Please have a read through the article before continuing.
Gmail account protection
How many cases have you done that involved possible unauthorized access to a webmail account? Probably quite a bit, if your client base and caseload is a bit similar to ours. Remember, this isn’t just about the average home user whose Hotmail account got hacked by guessing the secret question; there are numerous examples of people who (for a variety of reasons) use their personal webmail occassionaly or on a regular basis for receiving and sending workrelated e-mail.
These cases are often hard to solve: there are of course some tricks with using ‘digital traps’ to catch the person who is viewing the inbox, but such mechanisms don’t always work in the current world of spam-protection. And if you are doing bad things, you might be looking out for traps 
The webmail providers are often very reluctant to provide any information on when and from where an account was accessed, even when the requester is the owner of the account.