[Vision2020] President White's Letter SupportingGeocentricism is aHoax

[Chasuk]

On 10/6/05, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> Greetings Visionaires -

> These are the facts.  Somebody had actively hacked into a UI e-mail server.
> That person further created an e-mail from the email account of the Office
> of the UI President.  The e-mail was sent to all staff and faculty of the
> University of Idaho.

Is this a fact?  I haven't seen the original message with the headers
intact, but it isn't terribly difficult to make a letter appear as if
has come from one source when it has come from another, without any
hacking involved.  Most of us have probably gotten spam that is
ostensibly from one individual and is in actuality from another.  I
haven't taken the time to learn such chicanery myself, but I am
assured by knowledgeable people that a relatively clever teenager can
master it quickly enough; probably with tutorials obtained via a
Google search.

If this hacking did occur, then I hope that the perpetrators are
identified and prosecuted.  If it didn't, well, then, the message was
FUNNY, and too obvious of a hoax to have merited a single hackle being
raised.


Cheers,

Chas