[Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open

[Jim Stahl]

FWIW I have had about a sudden 10dB increase in spam, beginning around Friday morning. Lots of crap about Qantas flights and “Coles” gift certificates, as well as others I don’t remember after quickly deleting therm.


73   -  Jim  K8MR


> On Feb 12, 2017, at 7:23 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <ron at cobi.biz> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>