{"id":256,"date":"2006-06-23T21:27:22","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T10:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/06\/23\/somethinkodd-defcon-rather-nervous\/"},"modified":"2006-06-23T21:27:22","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T10:27:22","slug":"somethinkodd-defcon-rather-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/06\/23\/somethinkodd-defcon-rather-nervous\/","title":{"rendered":"SomethinkOdd DefCon: Rather Nervous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something really scary happened to me just now. I am trying to remain “alert but not alarmed”.<\/p>\n

I got a couple of bounce messages.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please remain calm. I am certainly trying to. <\/p>\n

Whoa! Actually, now I am panicking. I tried to provide a cultural reference for the term “alert but not alarmed” for the non-Australian readers, but found that (at the time of writing) the nationalsecurity.gov.au site is down. The cyber-terrorists have won!<\/div>\n

WordPress sends me an email when a comment is posted, reassuring my neurotic soul that someone, somewhere out there cares enough to validate my existence, and offering me the chance to mark it as spam. <\/p>\n

Today, it sent me several such emails and<\/strong> a couple of bounce messages.<\/p>\n

The bounce messages are from my ISP’s mail server saying that it failed deliver copies of the automated message to four yahoo.com.tw accounts – those accounts had been disabled or didn’t exist.<\/p>\n

Weird. I don’t have any Taiwanese Yahoo accounts. I only know one person with a Taiwanese Yahoo account, and they ain’t his. I don’t have any rules on my email host or in my email client to redirect that email anywhere but my main POP account for collection.<\/p>\n

I don’t want to jump to conclusions here – I don’t have enough reliable information, and there could always be a simpler explanation – but the only possible conclusion I can think of is that my emails are being cc’ed to bad guys in Taiwan at the ISP level.<\/p>\n

I have raised a support request for my (US-based) ISP. In the meantime, I am wondering in horror if this could be true and how long ago the cyberterrorists won.<\/p>\n

Any Linux\/qmail admins want to suggest where I should look for telltales of such untoward behaviour?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something really scary happened to me just now. I am trying to remain “alert but not alarmed”.<\/p>\n

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