[Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

[Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT]

Mr. Podesta is a good example of what I'm talking about: he was asked to 
update his password, he didn't look at the message carefully and ask 
himself if it was genuine.

There is nothing magical about Trojan horses.  They rely on someone 
trusting that the offer is genuine, and following the "call to action" 
when they really are not what they seem.

73 -- Lynn

On 2/12/2017 4:10 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
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