On 4/9/2012 13:42, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> On 4/8/2012 3:20 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> 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."
>>
> If it was that trivial, people wouldn't keep falling for it. Just saying.

You misunderstand. It's easy to look at an email message and tell what it 
says. It's very hard to look at an email message and tell what human it's 
from. That latter part is the primary cause of people "falling for it." If 
you could solve the latter problem, the former problem would drop to 
background radiation levels.

-- 
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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