From 69617cf147b154546583c5afaed27cc7fb5b36fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikaela Suomalainen Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 14:11:23 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] WhyDoISignEmails.html.md: under construction ipdetad --- PGP/WhyDoISignEmails.html.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/PGP/WhyDoISignEmails.html.md b/PGP/WhyDoISignEmails.html.md index b5d1000..e5fc2fa 100644 --- a/PGP/WhyDoISignEmails.html.md +++ b/PGP/WhyDoISignEmails.html.md @@ -18,6 +18,26 @@ The signature is evidence that message comes from me. If I sign all my messages, I can say that I sign all my messages and possibly unsigned offensive content, which is spoofed to "come" from my address, isn't sent by me. +### Who would want to spoof you? + +I don't know, but it seems that some people want. On 06.10.12 there has been spam attack against [Limnoria's pastebin] where the pasted message has title which contains some nicks (including mine) from #Limnoria at freenode and then Limnoria bot announces it on #Limnoria and spams people. + +What does this have to do with me? I was sleeping when this started around 00:30 Finnish time (UTC+3), but the pasted message claims + +``` +Pasted by Mkaysi. +``` + +Everyone knows that I am known as Mkaysi at multiple places, but that paster isn't me. If I pasted something, the paster name would be "Mkaysi". + +Maybe I will start signing all my pastes in the future. There is [feature request for pastebinit] about that. + +#### Expection + +School forces me to send some emails without signing them when I am not at home. + + + ### But it doesn't prove anything, you can just leave offensive content unsigned. True, I could do that. But I don't have habit of writing offensive text and saying that it doesn't come from me.