[LINK] The bad guys have won (was Re: www.ipv6.org.au/summit)

[Adam Todd]

At 02:41 01/09/2008, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>How often do you pause and read the email headers and evaluate their
>veracity or lack thereof?

Most of those types are filtered, although my wifelette does 
occasionally query some with me.

Oh hang on, yeah, advanced users.  Sorry.


>How many emails do you get every day that ask you to click on a link
>to watch a video on You Tube or to grab a joke, a picture or an e-card?

e-cards are trashed without looking.  Jokes, are trashed without 
looking.  YouTube, check to be sure ir's real but simply GOING to the 
Youtube home page and logging on, why use a link in an email?  You 
only have to log in anyway?

>If such an email contains personal information about you, perhaps gleaned
>by an attacker who has visited your PC, would you be fooled? Would you be
>fooled if you were in a rush and not thinking clearly?

If an email contains personal info about me, I know it's fake :)

Cause I never use the same personal info twice with anyone - a new 
DOB with every party I deal with *IF* they MUST have a DOB 'for 
security and identification' purposes.

COUGH

Lets see an identity frauders have guess the other 364 DOB's I use, 
even if they do know my real one :)