1 post tagged “security”

I was talking to a friend of mine the other night about the strangest email snafu I've ever heard of.  Let me outline the events (names/emails are changed to make possible investigation easier)...

My friend sends an email about a meeting for the next day from home to a business associate of hers...let's call him Sam Frist (Email = samfrist@nonamecompany.com) at 10:31pm.

Email arrives in Sam Frist's inbox at 10:32pm, and he replies the next morning around 9:15am.

The next morning my friend receives a reply from Sam (Samantha) Foster (Email = samf@bicyclesrus.com) at around 10:45am to the same email. Sam Foster is wondering how she recieved the email, as she knows nothing about it.

My friend does not know Sam Foster. Sam foster does not know my friend. Sam Foster and Sam Frist do not know each other (Sam Foster even incorrectly assumed Sam Frist was a women like herself). The email was only sent to Sam Frist (I verified that). None of the parties used a common email server on either end. Nothing was in common except the same first name and the same last initial.

Except...however...it is likely that both Sam Foster and Sam Frist were using T-Mobile Blackberry's at the time....

This is like if I left a voice-message on your home answering machine in New York, and it also, somehow eneded up on an answering machine at a strangers house in New Mexico...and both home owners used Western Bell.  It seems pretty serious to me.

Why is it all that serious...?

Someday, when CNN or CSPAN goes to a long shot of our various cabinet members and presidential staffers...see how many are using Blackberry's...