On 4/8/2012 13:05, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Well, no, but its part and parcel to the same bloody problem of figuring out
> what you are looking at, and who sent it.

It's easy to tell what you're looking at. You already have it.

It's impossible to tell who it is from, except in a fairly abstract way like 
"at least one of the people who ought to be keeping their private key 
private has sent this."

> Its gotten to the point where, if a company actually has a legit reason to
> contact you, with anything other than product advertisements, you can't
> trust it, unless its a phone call, or they provide an "on their site" method
> of messaging you, and even then, someone could scam you by saying, "The is a
> new message for you at Blah.com, click here to log in and read it.", and
> your still screwed.

This isn't a new problem. The only reason it gets attention now is that it's 
trivially easy to do this sort of phishing on a grand scale. But it's not 
different than any of the other con games played throughout history.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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