Mar 20th, 2007
assume someones elses identity
a friend just showed me a really weird google-tool that you can add to your google-homepage.
Click “Add Stuff” and search for “Quick Email”. Now add the first item that turned up. Back on your homepage you are now prompted to add any emails and names. Here you can add any, as in ANY, email and name that you feel like sending from. Be that as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Bush himself. Once you have completed the form, you can go ahead and send an email from the address you chose. What is scary is that the email received does not indicate in any way that it is not really the person you think it is that is writing to you…I am sure that a somewhat adept sys-admin would be able to trace the email, but what about us mere mortals?
I think I am gonna go assume the identity of sadam@heaven.org and send an email to George; subject “look at me now”…
hehe, cool… But it’s not perfect.
What you receive looks like :
Plume+Latraverse
This “+” between first name and name, and this “myshpere.biz” after the .com makes it less real.
tks for the tip thought… I will send a couple of emails, pretending to be my boss