On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:16:40AM -0500, Magnus Hedemark wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Mike M wrote: > > > Did anyone else get an Important Message About Their Account from the > > FDIC today :-)? > > This was covered pretty well on Slashdot and other big news sites over the > weekend. The scam email was one of the more professional cons going > around, but it was a scam nonetheless. They were taking advantage, also, > of a bug in IE so hopefully few people here could have been victimized. > Huh? I was there several times over the weekend. Must'a missed it or ignored it.
> This is another good reason for PKI. If the message was signed with a > key, and that key were signed by a number of trustworthy people, it would > be possible for you to ascertain the validity of the message. Anyone that knows what PKI is would be able to tell the email was bogus. OTOH, I don't think the sheep out there stand a chance. Mike -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
