FWIW I have had about a sudden 10dB increase in spam, beginning around Friday morning. Lots of crap about Qantas flights and “Coles” gift certificates, as well as others I don’t remember after quickly deleting therm.
73 - Jim K8MR > On Feb 12, 2017, at 7:23 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <r...@cobi.biz> wrote: > > Don't overlook the fact that anyone posting here has their e-mail address > added to the archive available on the Elecraft web page (and probably > others) where any web-bot can easily harvest it. > > 73, Ron AC7AC > > -----Original Message----- > From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Fred > Jensen > Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2017 4:10 PM > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: be careful what you open > > Ummm ... maybe not. The email address of everyone who has recently posted > to this list resides in the trash folder on my computer where it went after > I read it, and where it will stay until a few thousand accumulate and I > empty the trash. This is probably also the case for most everyone else. My > computer is pretty well protected behind several firewalls, but if someone > got in, they're all there for the taking. > > A lot of so-called "hacking" is pretty low-tech. Hillary Clinton's campaign > emails were taken because someone sent her campaign manager [John Podesta] > an email requesting him to "update his password" and conveniently providing > a link to do that, which he did, dutifully logging in to their server with > his password. > > 73, > > Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW > Sparks NV DM09dn > Washoe County > > On 2/12/2017 3:04 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote: >> I know this address appears in exactly one place: here. It was >> harvested from this list in one way or another. >> > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
