Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #03402



To: Chiu-Yuan Fang chiumanfu@home.com
From: James Niemasik jfn@best.com
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:33:54 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Ian?


I don't think someone would have gone through the trouble to do that...

Chiu-Yuan Fang wrote:

> It was Colonel Mustard in the Library with the candle stick...haha
>
> Nice bit of detective work James but did you ever think it may have been someone
> using an IP spoofer to frame Ian to impersonate Dave?
>
> The truth is out there...
>
> Chiu
>
> James Niemasik wrote:
> >
> > A few things:
> > In Ian's posts to the list, his IP's (they're dynamic) have started with 172.17.250
> > and ended with .37, .45, and .46. The IP of the imposter post was also
> > 172.17.250.46. Dave's IP, however, is static at 24.64.65.253.
> > Secondly, all the messages from Ian, including the imposter post, have originated
> > from intergate.etsc.net. Dave's, however, come from mailX.cadvision.com (as do
> > Hyndman's, by the way), where X is usually 3 or 4.
> > Third, the first section of the message path for all of Ian's letters ends with
> > "-0600 (MDT)". The imposter post has this snippet too. However, all of Dave's posts
> > end with "-0600" without the "(MDT)".
> > There are tons of other signs too, but these are three of the most significant
> > ones.
> >
> > James Anderson wrote:
> >
> > > James Niemasik wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well, it takes longer for some messages to get to you than others, and it's
> > > > not your clock that determines what time they say. As far as Dave replying to
> > > > his own message, that was a trick by Ian. (not as clever as you think, eh
> > > > Ian?)
> > >
> > > James,
> > >
> > > Just out of curiosity, how do you figure it was Ian? I disagree, since both
> > > Dave and Ian are at UTC -0600, while Mr. Impostor is a -400. Ian would've had
> > > to purposefully change his time zone so that it *didn't* match Dave's, which
> > > would cover his tracks to some extent, but would also lessen the quality of the
> > > impersonation. Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Wondering Aimlessly,
> > > James Anderson
> >
> > --
> >
> > * James Niemasik
> > * jfn@best.com
> > * ICQ: 7490296 AIM: njamie
> > * http://welcome.to/jamesbeam
>
> --
> Chiu-Yuan Fang
> chiumanfu@home.com
> ICQ=5614919
> http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/6897/beam2.html

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* James Niemasik
* jfn@best.com
* ICQ: 7490296 AIM: njamie
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