Stan, your e-mail identity can be "spoofed" (stolen) any time someone receives an e-mail from you who has an 'infected' machine. It doesn't have anything to do with the sender of the e-mail - you if a direct e-mail or this list if someone reading the messages here has an 'infected' machine.
Of course, the hacker will create his/her own message for the body of the e-mail. If other information such as old e-mails, your contact list, etc., has been used by the hacker, that had to come from your machine via some program on your system that is pulling data from your machine, or from some server what is storing all of this data for you. With "Cloud" computing becoming more common and more and more web-based e-mail systems storing your contacts and e-mails on a web server for you to access from anywhere, any one of those machines that is compromised can be the source. The Elecraft e-mail list gets only what you sent it, nothing more. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- So now I'm wondering if the recent email address "hackings" that have been discussed on this list over the last 6 - 8 weeks are a product of this list? Just a thought coming from a retired IBM systems programmer whose ancient knowledge of assembler language, and computers-as-big-as ranch-houses, doesn't transfer to today's complex, web-based interactive computing environment. When I got hacked, the hacker accessed by "Sent" history file and resent inquiry emails to selected ham radio suppliers, even changing all the dates to September 10. This caused quite a bit of confusion when suppliers I dealt with over a year ago were being asked "by me" to trace lost shipments, give a price quote, etc. I was unable to find any evidence of emails being resent to any targets other than ham radio suppliers. That's what makes this seem so strange.... 73, Stan Levandowski WB2LQF ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
