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<pre wrap=""><div class="moz-txt-sig">Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:55:42 -0400
From: Fairlight <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fairlite@fairlite.com"><fairlite@fairlite.com></a>
Subject: Re: Crap mail lacking a Subject Header
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Apologies in advance for this not being threaded properly, JPR. I approved
your message when mailman had it hung up, but it was zapped by IgLou's spam
filters for a score of 12.3, and I no longer have the original.
JPR said:
*****
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>So now I know that AOL's mail filters peek into the body of incoming
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>email...
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>I think I will also surmise that my friend and Courtney were both
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>victims of another security fuck-up on Windoze.
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<pre wrap="">*****
1) Always assume your email isn't private, unless it's GPG/PGP encrypted.
Actually, I was taught "never", by my mentor at university, but that was
before the advent of PGP--or at least its widespread availability. Even if
you fully control one endpoint, you don't control the other endpoint, nor
any relays in use. (I know -you- should know this, JP, I'm saying it for
others' edification.)
2) What else is new with Windows? :/
What -really- frosts my cornflakes is that this is now -three- times the
list has been attacked by Courtney's computer(s). There was the first one
that I started the security thread on. Then there was one like the next
day. And sitting in mailman, along with your own message, was ANOTHER one
from Courtney, which had a different URL at the same initial shortener, but
which was quite obviously the same crap. I discarded it, saving everyone
the trouble.
Someone needs to get on Courtney's case and get him to clean his $Diety
d***ed computer, already. I dunno about Bill, but I'm already tired of
dealing with it. And unless Bill tells me otherwise, the -next- message
I see coming through from Courtney that's of the same ilk, if I get to it
before Bill does, I'm removing Courtney from the list without any personal
warning. Enough is enough. I -should- have done it this time, come to
think of it, and wish I had. If there was ever a reason to unsub someone,
this is it.
(How lax [non-existent] does your security have to be to not only get
infected, but not -realise- you've been infected with something this
virulent for at least four days?) <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>sigh<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
mark->
<div class="moz-txt-sig">--
Audio panton, cogito singularis.
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<br>
I've come across this particular type of spam twice before. The
first time it was my brother's AOL account that was hacked and a
simple filter put in that sent out a URL to everyone listed on an
e-mail that came to him. He changed the setting and his password
and that resolved the issue.<br>
<br>
The other instance was another friend where the same thing happened
to his on-line Yahoo account.<br>
<br>
I don't think Windows was involved in this at all.<br>
<br>
But Windows does seem to be involved in what seems to be a cyber
attack on Irans' nuclear program.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/09/25/cyber-war-on-iran-the-siemens-connection/">http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/09/25/cyber-war-on-iran-the-siemens-connection/</a><br>
<br>
Boaz<br>
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