[okfn-help] Fwd: Help! I'm in trouble!

Wed Nov 23 09:45:39 UTC 2011

Hi Daniel,

Excerpts from Daniel Dietrich's message of 2011-11-23 08:25:01 +0000:
> Are we hacked?
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From:  <Jeannette at okfn.org>
> Date: 23 November 2011 00:00
> Subject: Help! I'm in trouble!
> To: daniel.dietrich at okfn.org
> 
> 
> I was at a party, got drunk, couldn't drive the car, somebody gave me
> a lift on my car, and crossed on the red light many times, I've just
> got the pictures, maybe you know him?
> Here is the photo
> 
> I need to find him urgently!
> 
> Thank you
> Jeannette

If you worry about email 'From' claiming account on okfn.org don't worry to much. AFAIK one can set those headers very easily to anything as described in this forum thread:
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?threadid=15009

Someone who has access to our mail server could check if okfn.org actually relied this email, most likely it originates from some bogus spamming server.

On the other hand we may all consider starting signing our emails with PGP, I still don't do it myself and feel bit ashamed of this quite irresponsible way of communicating. Maybe we do one day online workshop on setting up GPG and using it to signing emails?

=)
~ elf Pavlik ~