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, neil jenkins

i'd be interested to know from other people who've also been sent this email, what email address the mail claims to be sent from.. the one i received appeared to be sent by my name-sake, [email protected].. .

, Eryk Salvaggio

It appears to be Natalie Bookchin and a group of others. The emails were
all user names from other domains
and then @yahoo.com which I assume has been spoofed. For example:
[email protected] sent email to
[email protected], and Max says he got one from [email protected]…..

They did this before, where they spoofed emails to appear as if someone
had sent an email from your account
[mine was sent from [email protected]] and told me to be more careful
about logging out because you never
know who is watching, then linked to a magic trick where George Bush
guessed what card you were thinking
of. That site was hosted on
action-tank.com which says this:

Action Tank is an independent mobile network that deploys high leverage
technology as ammunition against the current state of affairs. Action
Tank was formed in 2000 by Natalie Bookchin and Jin Lee. As an open
collaborative unit, Action Tank has joined forces with Cathy Davies,
Mark Allen, Jerry Hamby and Lem Jay Ignacio to produce Metapet
<http://metapet.net> .

for more information write to
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>


The thing I don't understand is why Natalie Bookchin would be resorting
to such a cliched, amateurish kind of
promotional campaign and especially for the whole George Bush thing-
isn't the "mysterious" "hacker" "identity"
that asks "questions" [not that this piece asked any questions about
anything] about "politics" [not that this piece
was actually political] the aesthetic of potentially smart fifteen year
olds who are playing around on the web?

Maybe it isn't Bookchin. I didn't download the kit because I don't trust
anyone who hacks or spoofs email
accounts in the name of self-promotion. I also have my doubts it was
Natalie Bookchin for the same reason; since
she always struck me as web-savvy. I don't know, maybe the PSI kit is
great- the site looks interesting- but if so,
there is no reason to go annoy everyone who might have been interested
in it by doing something so trite as trying
to look like a "hacker." [And perpetuating the myth of
destructive/invasive hacking and exploiting fears of security
threats to ones home computer- is hardly the thing that is going to make
people take to the streets and start any
kind of joyous uprising, especially in this climate.]

Here's a positive outlook though- if the piece was about using fear for
ones own security [via the open email "hack"]
to investigate certain avenues towards solving these problems [clicking
the link] where suddenly George Bush offers
a "magic trick" which is actually a psychological deception- then it's a
kind of clever "commentary" on the state of
things, but I think it was presented completely inappropriately….and I
don't think it's likely that this was the intent.

Cheers,
-e.




Neil Jenkins wrote:

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