On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:43:37PM +0000, Mark Howard wrote: > Hi, > Of course I know this is not true, but it does look like it is and is > probably worrying to some people. I've had a couple of viruses sent > pretending to be from people at debian in the past few days. Is there > anything we can do about this? Educate the general public regarding the fallibility of From: headers as a means of identifying the source of a message, and encourage the widespread adoption of end-to-end cryptographic signatures in email. Nothing else is likely to have much impact. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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