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Old September 7, 2003, 10:57 PM
James Jones
 
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Default Re: This is probably how he tracked the email...

I suspect you are right Dien. But of course you have to have the "special software" and as you well know only Halbert, the Pope, George W., Indiana Jones and Bill Gates have a copy.
(Gates has 3)

Actually, rumor has it that there was an 8th copy and that is the REAL reason we went into Iraq but I'm not gonna be the one to spread rumors.

"If I told you what I can do with a computer (and I told you the 100% truth) you would be afraid of me for the rest of your life. You would always be in fear I might turn my expertise against you" -- Gary "Your Worst F***ing Nightmare" Halbert.

Damn -- Now we gotta worry that Gary might use his powers for evil. Could this be the coming of...

DARK HALBERT??!!????

> Hi James,

> I agree with you - the story GH told about
> key pressures is ridiculous.

> What's more likely is that his
> "hacker" friend simply looked at
> the full headers of the email that he
> received. It's easy to fake the
> "from" line on an email (spammers
> do it all the time), but full headers
> usually give the game away as to the email's
> true origin.

> Knowing this, he could have compared the
> full headers of one email with another, and
> noticed a match. That would tell you that
> both came from the same source - even if the
> "from" addresses are different.

> That's my guess as to how he *probably*
> determined the email's true source.

> - Dien Rice
 


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