Re: OT: Educating users about Security

On Saturday 13 November 2004 05:12 pm, Bob Holtzman kindly wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > I love these people like family, but I'm getting tired of them blaming ME
> > and Linux for their misery. I feel I should be blaming THEM for being so
> > willfully and deliberately stupid with their computers that it came to
> > this.
> >
> > So, that's my rant. Thanks for listening.
>
> About the only thing that gets the attention of people like this is to
> crack their box, install a key logger and appropriate spyware and print
> out a message on their screen:
>
> Your bank account number is -----------
> Your bank account login is -----------
> Your bank account password is -----------
> your email to your lover/mistress ---------------- sent on mm/dd/yy said:
> "-----------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------------------------------"
>
> NOW DO YOU BELIEVE ME?
>
> Then arrange for this spyware to be sent to everyone on the network with
> the correct "From" line.


Oooooh, that's rich! Wish I knew how to do that. Wouldn't even know where to
start, though, and this list isn't the place for anyone to try to teach me...

Thanks for your support, though. It makes me feel better :-)

Siri Amrit
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