[Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Don't overlook the fact that anyone posting here has their e-mail address
added to the archive available on the Elecraft web page (and probably
others) where any web-bot can easily harvest it.

73, Ron AC7AC 

-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Fred
Jensen
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2017 4:10 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

Ummm ... maybe not.  The email address of everyone who has recently posted
to this list resides in the trash folder on my computer where it went after
I read it, and where it will stay until a few thousand accumulate and I
empty the trash. This is probably also the case for most everyone else.  My
computer is pretty well protected behind several firewalls, but if someone
got in, they're all there for the taking.

A lot of so-called "hacking" is pretty low-tech.  Hillary Clinton's campaign
emails were taken because someone sent her campaign manager [John Podesta]
an email requesting him to "update his password" and conveniently providing
a link to do that, which he did, dutifully logging in to their server with
his password.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 2/12/2017 3:04 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote:
> I know this address appears in exactly one place: here.  It was 
> harvested from this list in one way or another.
>