On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 08:51, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 14:13, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > > fre, 2003-01-03 kl. 13:12 skrev "Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Who would want to impersonate me????? > > > > > Me? Just because it's so easy... > > > > I used to be mailadmin for 3 different firms ;) > > It was intended to be obvious :-) > > Point is: it is easy enough to hide who the original author was. More > difficult to fake the message so it seems to come from the 'right' > mailservers, but some people are on the road frequently, with providers > changing often. Some people use accouts at big providers - I can get > one, too (Tony, I hope you understand that I don't think /you/ wouldn't > know this all).
What's really sad is that I started using PGP, then switched to GPG when it had matured enough to replace PGP, because people were impersonating me on newsgroup postings. I had to wonder who had such an incredibly empty life they had to impersonate ME to get their kicks, but someone was doing it. I ended up for a while basically operating under the "if you get a message that claims to be from me and it's not PGP signed, it's a forgery" principle. I haven't done much newsgroup stuff lately, but the habit of using GPG hasn't changed. Besides the habit part, it's also a political statement. The less any government can control, the better, and since GPG means they can't control a poster's privacy that's one more useful tool against the State. -- Bill Hartwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MacManus Enterprises
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