I'm sorry to have to confess this, but I don't understand how I as a mere user receiving mail am supposed to know that the Free Willy message did not come from the President. Here is what I got: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Message 5/12 From President@whitehouse.gov Dec 19 '93 at 2:13 pm pst Return-Path: <heifetz!toad.com!owner-cypherpunks> Return-Path: <President@whitehouse.gov> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 14:13:02 PST I Love encryption. I Love PGP. I Love PseudoSpoofing. Please send me lots of mail about my Health Care Plan. And always remember... Free Willy! --Slick ----------------------------------------------------------------- Looks good to me. But, ferguson says he knows better
Return-Path: <President@whitehouse.gov> Received: from [144.92.136.35] by toad.com id AA13485; Sun, 19 Dec 93 14:16:03 PST
Which ferguson shows as TELGATE.ADP.WISC.EDU 144.92.104.20 To me, 144.92 could be wisc.edu or telgate.adp but in any event, I didn't see this at all and would have ignored it if I had. Messages get routed all over the place. You call Detroit from Lansing and it goes via Chicago. 144.92 proves nothing. Then charliemerritt offers another solution.
Return-path: President@whitehouse.gov Received: from delphi.com by bix.com (CoSy3.31.1.45) id <9312191740.memo.19248@BIX.com>; Sun, 19 Dec 1993 17:40:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from relay2.UU.NET by delphi.com (PMDF V4.2-11 #4520) id <01H6O7JJ9BJK94H43Q@delphi.com>; Sun, 19 Dec 1993 17:37:58 EDT Received: from toad.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA10179; Sun, 19 Dec 93 17:37:09 -0500 Received: by toad.com id AA13572; Sun, 19 Dec 93 14:19:04 PST Received: by toad.com id AA13552; Sun, 19 Dec 93 14:17:31 PST Received: from [144.92.136.35] by toad.com id AA13485; Sun, 19 Dec 93 14:16:03 PST From: President@whitehouse.gov Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 14:13:02 -0800 (PST) To: charliemerritt@bix.com Message-id: <9312192216.AA13485@toad.com> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Envelope-to: bix.com!charliemerritt Apparently-To: Cypherpunks
Wex himself was also on top of this, and what did he find?
Received: by toad.com id AA13552; Sun, 19 Dec 93 14:17:31 PST Return-Path: <President@whitehouse.gov> Received: from [144.92.136.35] by toad.com id AA13485; Sun, 19 Dec 93 14:16:0 3 PST Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 14:13:02 PST From: President@whitehouse.gov Message-Id: <9312192216.AA13485@toad.com>
Which does show the wisconsin 144 stuff, but none of the Delphi- Bix-UUnet nonsense. So what I am to make of this? Two sharp 'punks finger this as coming from (through?) wisconsin 144. So, I conclude that this spoofer goes to U-Wisc. He has accounts on Bix and Delphi. He forwards Free Willy from 144 to Delphi to Bix and from there to toad. But ferguson didn't have Delphi and Bix in his solution. And, again, the message came to me with just the address of the Presidential Palace in Federal City. Seems to me, the most reasonable explanation is that the message probably did not come from The President, but that conjecture is based on the CONTENT, not the addressing. As for Wex, ferguson, and charliemerritt, perhaps these are merely tentacles of Hillary who is discrediting Willy's desperate shot at freedom.