Raise your hand if you sent people emails from "billclinton@whitehouse.gov" in telnet via open relays when you were in sixth grade
@parataxis I sent things from satan@hell.com, is that close enough?
@parataxis .....uh yeah except before Bill Clinton was in office because I'm old...
@parataxis Sorry was more used to use MonicaLewinsk@whitehouse.gov, myself https://sync.appservice.fr/media/iOFj3XkoycXhq_6Y33U
@parataxis @munin *literally* the oldest trick in the book, but also a social hack that was the cause of nearly a dozen large breaches last year.
@parataxis 👋 haha did it with the French president at the time
@parataxis damn, I used to use pope@vatigan.net .... I think I was doing it wrong ;)
@parataxis (i mean, i was in high school, but, yeah.)
@parataxis Yup, except it was georgebush and whitehouse.gov didn't exist yet 😀
@parataxis not sure why that emoji came out like that, but whatevs
@therealklanni @parataxis I sent an email "from" one tech teacher to another via the campus SMTP and Lotus thought it was "authenticated" or something and the whole DoE freaked out. They had me do it again in front of them to prove I wasn't haxxing.
@will @parataxis haha! As far as SMTP hax, I found a bug in certain versions (mid 90s) that if you did "Y@" as the FROM it would look to the RCPT like there was no sender. Only worked if you spoke to SMTP via Telnet. No idea why.
@parataxis not exactly, but if someone pissed me off i'd flood their inbox for days through the local university, and they probably had a 1MB storage limit
@parataxis Kinda, but it wasn't 6th grade, and it was my own SMTP server running on my Atari ST. The whole internet was wide open back then.
@parataxis Hmmm, 6th grade. Might have been ronaldregan@whitehouse.gov if I had a modem on the Apple ][e. I did have one on the Apple ][gs a couple years later. ;-)
I do use president@whitehouse.gov in my example when I'm explaining spoofed addresses to users. I do like to use whatever random character pops in my head when I'm testing an email server. Like Jor-El@Krypton.com.
@parataxis well not that precise email, but...
@parataxis that would have been awfully silly when I was in sixth grade, but yes, when you were in sixth grade I probably still did it ;)