A number of current programs allow the From field to be changed, among them
Outlook (97, 98, and 2000) and (I think) Eudora. This can be foiled, to a
certain extent, by watching the headers, but this just isolates from where
it came. If I change my From field to someone else within the same company
or ISP, then there is an additional issue of tracking things down. This is
where things like PGP come in so handy.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 7:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: email software
In a message dated 06/15/2000 3:36:44 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> As other people have pointed out, most email software lets you
> forge mail easily;
I've never really used anything other than my office's dedicated email
program (which does not allow changing the FROM: field near as I know), AOL,
which allows made up screen names but can't alter the domain name, and free
e-mail services on the net, which limit you to the, say hotmail.com domain
name. I've never used Eudora or any other program....can one really, fully
alter the FROM: address to make it, say, in the classic example,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]? And when you say "easily," how easy is it?
Eric Zorn
