[Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

[Reuben Popp]

Let's not be hasty in our judgement...

To be fair, it would be trivial to write a small script to harvest any
string that looks like an email address that follows the form of
/\w\sat\s\w\.(com|net|org|tld)/ (that's a word followed by a space followed
by 'at' followed by space followed by a word followed by a period and a
tld).

Just saying... our email addresses are plastered all over, and the above
form of obfuscation is fairly easy to defeat.  And then, there's places
where it's not obfuscated in the least, such as

http://lists.contesting.com/_rtty/2015-01/msg00047.html

which contains your "exclusive" address in its entirety with no obfuscation.

Not trying to call you out here, I'm just pointing out that there's a
million ways for me to acquire an address (if I were up to nefarious
designs).



On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT <
KX3 at coldrockshotbrooms.com> wrote:

> I'd like to thank the person who opened an E-Mail attachment that should
> not have been opened.
>
> The attachment contained a trojan horse -- malware that then harvested
> E-Mail addresses from their machine.
>
> I know it was a list member, because my E-Mail address for this list is
> exclusively used for this list, and I'm now getting unwanted "spoofed" mail
> telling me about packages that are undeliverable, or that I need to appear
> in court.
>
> Those E-Mails have attachments, allegedly containing the details of my
> offense or how to claim the package.
>
> The E-Mail is very generic.  If you read it critically, there is nothing
> that says it is from a legitimate shipper, legitimate court -- just a
> slightly scary call to action.
>
> It's another trojan horse.
>
> It seems to me that after 3,000 years, we would have learned to keep the
> metaphorical horse outside our cities, but no, there are some who say "look
> at the pretty horse!" and we all suffer.
>
> Thank you for your future consideration.  I'll go change my E-Mail address
> now.
>
> 73 -- Lynn
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