Lately, I’ve been getting emails with no subject, no “from” and no content. Nothing but a return path, which I wouldn’t see if I didn’t display full headers. It’s just an empty email. I just got about half a dozen of them at once, each from a different return path.
This is worry-making stuff, and the kind of thing that Bill Joy was worried about. We’re going to have to come up with personal defenses for it. It will be an arms race. It’s also a reason to get space opened up ASAP.
For anyone wondering what happened yesterday, my server died (MB or PS, not sure which). Just so you didn’t think you went back in time a couple weeks overnight. I’ve been running on a new machine since yesterday, but we didn’t update the databases until just a few minutes ago. Normal blogging and commenting can recommence.
Over at Wired, Adam Mann has a history of them, from von Braun to present. None of them are going to come to fruition until we get costs down, and stop wasting money on big rockets.