[Elecraft] Hacked Emails

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Stan, your e-mail identity can be "spoofed" (stolen) any time someone
receives an e-mail from you who has an 'infected' machine. It doesn't have
anything to do with the sender of the e-mail - you if a direct e-mail or
this list if someone reading the messages here has an 'infected' machine.

Of course, the hacker will create his/her own message for the body of the
e-mail.

If other information such as old e-mails, your contact list, etc., has been
used by the hacker, that had to come from your machine via some program on
your system that is pulling data from your machine, or from some server what
is storing all of this data for you. With "Cloud" computing becoming more
common and more and more web-based e-mail systems storing your contacts and
e-mails on a web server for you to access from anywhere, any one of those
machines that is compromised can be the source.

The Elecraft e-mail list gets only what you sent it, nothing more. 

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
So now I'm wondering if the recent email address "hackings" that have 
been discussed on this list over the last 6 - 8 weeks are a product of 
this list?

Just a thought coming from a retired IBM systems programmer whose 
ancient knowledge of assembler language, and computers-as-big-as 
ranch-houses, doesn't  transfer to today's complex, web-based 
interactive computing environment.

When I got hacked, the hacker accessed by "Sent" history file and resent 
inquiry emails to selected ham radio suppliers, even changing all the 
dates to September 10.  This caused quite a bit of confusion when 
suppliers I dealt with over a year ago were being asked "by me" to trace 
lost shipments, give a price quote, etc.

I was unable to find any evidence of emails being resent to any targets 
other than ham radio suppliers.

That's what makes this seem so strange....

73,

Stan Levandowski WB2LQF