"greg@ideath.goldenbear.com" writes:
Someone recently posted a forged message with my name on it to the Cypherwonks list. In the future, all of my messages will be sent PGP-clearsigned. Please ignore (or mail to me) any messages which aren't - particularly if they appear to support Detweiler and his totalitarian schemes, which this particular forgery did.
The header of the message in question was a byte-for-byte duplicate of an authentic header from a message I did write; apparently our favorite cyberspatial lunatic has moved beyond just signature blocks.
This message forging may be about to become a major problem. In his last post "Current Operational Status", S.Boxx spewed forth: (I hereby flame myself for quoting Detweiler - so don't bother) ---snip---snip--- Operation Octopus - this is the multiple pseudonym and agent project. We plan to have at least a dozen (hence the name) posting simultaneously to many different lists and the newsgroups. But the overhead on this is very significant, and it will take us awhile to gear up and build the infrastructure to the point we can `engage'. You have seen more of these agents lately `out there', but our coordinated attack will take some more planning. Operation Duplicity - extremely top secret. Let's just say, you will be seeing double, and triple, and quadruple, and ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ---snip---snip--- If he starts flooding the newsgroups, what can we do about it? I'd watch for forged messages and posts, and if you don't have a key on the servers, check to make sure a forged one isn't posted. --- Mike