In <[email protected]>, on 09/20/2012
at 11:09 AM, Steve Comstock <[email protected]> said:
>Spoofing your email account can be done outside some social
>engineering contxt. At least that seems to be the concensus in this
>conversation, although I lack the technical knowledge of how to do it
>myself.
You can put anything you want in the From: header field, but you can't
prevent the MTS from adding trace fields. The best that you can do is
to confuse those who do not know how to read headers[1], and you can
do that just as easily if the purported sender uses webmail.
[1] And don't know how to check digital signatures, when they
are used.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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