[Charlug] spammer has no clue about encryption

[Brian J. Miller]

Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I got a spam from someone claiming to be a soldier in Iraq. The subject line 
> begins "Encrypted Private Letter". The message is in plaintext, 
> between "BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" lines. A real PGP message in plaintext 
> starts "BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE". "BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK" starts a 
> public key, which looks like a mishmash of letters and numbers.
> 
> Other tipoffs: it's sent to undisclosed recipients, and the From address ends 
> is "military.com", which exists, but isn't a domain of the military itself 
> (those end in ".mil").
> 
> Pierre

The encryption worked! You had no idea what was intended see...

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Brian J. Miller
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