From: ronbo@nowhere.com   
      
   On 9/25/2010 6:05 PM, catpandaddy wrote:   
   >   
   > "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   > news:i7lq03$n3f$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >>   
   >> "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
   >> news:i7l58l$ith$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   >>> This is not good.   
   >>>   
   >>> Well, someone brought to my attention that one of my Usenet accounts has   
   >>> been hacked. I created a backup account on AIOE for reading messages   
   >>> when   
   >>> my primary account would get bogged down for whatever reason.   
   >>>   
   >>> Only thing is, AIOE is no-password anonymous-login only. And it appears   
   >>> that whoever appropriated my account has been doing a lot of hate speech   
   >> in   
   >>> random newsgroups for some time.   
   >>   
   >> Unlikely it's been "hacked" - it's EXTREMELY easy to post messages that   
   >> pretend to be from someone else (just ask numeroud idiots who do it   
   >> all the   
   >> time).   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > I just realized that about an hour ago... it would have happened whether   
   > I created the failover account or not, as the news server login feeds   
   > nothing whatsoever to the posting identity. But it's another indication   
   > that Usenet is as flawed as ever, and has outlived its usefulness, at   
   > least the version of it that exists under current spec. From now on,   
   > it's secure accounts and forums only for this cat. After this weekend I   
   > will have migrated everything off this sinking ship, and will have   
   > started to move it all to something with unique user id's and user   
   > controlled security profiles.   
      
   It could be a cylon trying to assume your identity   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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