On Feb 6, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Steven Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> John Robinson says he received about 7 different e-mails from me this morning! > > Apparently my e-mail has been hacked. It seems like it happens about once a > year or so. > > What can I do? There's nothing you can do about it. Nobody has to hack your account to send an email that looks like it came from you. I can send an email that looks like it came from Barack Obama or the Queen of England, assuming I can find their email addresses. All you have to do is know how to set the From: header in email, and this is not difficult at all. It's no harder than putting a fake return address on plain old paper snail mail. Spammers have been doing this for years, and it does not necessarily mean they've compromised anyone's account. That's why I digitally sign much of my email. That can’t be faked by any method I know. Spammers can fake my address, but my signature shows whether it really came from me.
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