Those kind are the worst. And the number of "gmail" people 
responding so far just might bare that out about a "gmail hack".


-Partev


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--- andy.fillebrown@gmail.com wrote:

From: andy fillebrown 
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Cc: Erik de Castro Lopo 
Subject: Re: [Csnd] how are you
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:09:22 -0400

In my dad's case, the hacker got the password and was trying to
impersonate him -- stuck in Spain, needing money, etc, etc...
It was all transparent, and amusing -- and my dad got to catch up with
all his old friends as one by one they called to see what was up, lol.
 He had a great time.



On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
 wrote:
> Marc D. Demers wrote:
>
>> Me too, my email has been hacked two weeks ago.
>
> Did someone get access to your account (ie get your password)
> or did you just get spam?
>
>> The hacker got my email address from the list of contact from
>> one of my student that has a gmail address.
>
> From the sounds of this, you just got spammed. Everyone gets
> spam. Welcome to the internet.
>
> From reading some of the google forums its seems most people
> are getting hacked (ie their passwords leak into the hands
> of spammers) by accessing their accounts on open WiFi networks
> using insecure protocols like POP and IMAP  (ie send username/
> password in clear text) from portable devices like iPhones.
>
> This is insane, because there a secure SSL encypted versions
> of both the POP and IMAP protocols.
>
> Erik
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