Coding Horror

Remember “cybersecurity”?

Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .. things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to?

Unfortunately, we now live in a world where this kind of digital mischief is literally rewriting the world’s history. For proof of that, you need look no further than this single email that was sent March 19th, 2016.

If you don’t recognize what this is, it is a phishing email.

This is by now a very, very famous phishing email, arguably the most famous of all time. But let’s consider how this email even got sent to its target in the first place:

An attacker slurped up lists of any public emails of 2008 political campaign staffers.

One 2008 staffer was also hired for the 2016 political campaign

That particular staffer had non-public campaign emails in

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