[OpenIndiana-discuss] Does It Happen To All Of Us At Some Point?

[Gary Gendel]

Jay

I don't believe that MS Windows is the issue.  We've been Windows free 
for 20+ years.  The problem is that you don't have to be directly 
hacked. A mailing list or website you are a member of gets hacked (or 
has loose scruples).  It can even happen if one of your friends gets 
their contact list stolen.  For awhile I was using temporary email 
addresses for everything to track which ones come back to haunt me.  
This way I can tell who (or what) originated the leak.  My analysis says 
that you have to forego having an email address to escape this problem.  
I doubt that if everyone was on an illumos distribution that this 
situation would disappear.

My server's spam filters catch virtually all incoming junk but that does 
nothing for others sending emails spoofed with my address.  It hasn't 
happened in several years, but I used to see this situation. I saw 
bounce messages for mail I never sent.

Gary

On 6/19/2016 10:24 AM, Jay F. Shachter wrote:
>> Happens to all of us at some point.  Even my wife who is paranoid about
>> signing up for anything.  This was too obvious a spam that I just
>> trashed it as soon as I saw it.
>>
> Does it [i.e., junk mail claiming to be from me going to people to
> whom I have sent mail in the past] truly happen to all of us at some
> point?  Or does it only happen to those of us who use Microsoft
> Windows at some point?  To the best of my knowledge, it has never
> happened to me.  This is not a rhetorical question, I truly want to
> know whether there is anyone who, like myself, does not use Microsoft
> Windows, to whom it has nevertheless happened.  Perhaps peripheral to
> the purpose of this mailing list, perhaps not, if it can demonstrate
> that if you use nothing but OpenIndiana your friends are safe from
> junk mail.  Thank you in advance for any and all replies.
>
>
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