Python Code?
Recently my iMac's hard drive was copied as part of a computer forensic examination. The forensic expert filed a report with the court saying that he found emails on my computer that prove I have forged email headers, as well as used or tested remailing or anonymizing software. The emails he included with the report are listed as having been sent by Barry@python.org with the name "Barry Warsaw" on them.
My first guess was that these emails were spam which was sent to me and immediately deleted. Further searching led me to the folks who operate the Python.org thing, whatever in the heck that is. They informed me that what was found was a very old piece of Python "sample data" which some computer makers and software writers include at the time of manufacture. They said there was "nothing sinister" about it and the "expert" doesn't know what he's doing.
Does anyone here have any idea what's going on? I'm sensing that their forensic "expert" has either misidentified a piece of innocent email or code or is running a scam on somebody. I've put a copy of one of the emails below. Thanks.
..................
Return‐Path: <barry@python.org> Delivered‐To: barry@python.org Received: by mail.python.org (Postfix, from userid 889)
id C2BF0D37C6; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:05:05 ‐0400 (EDT) MIME‐Version: 1.0
Content‐Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="h90VIIIKmx" Content‐Transfer‐Encoding: 7bit Message‐ID: <15261.36209.358846.118674@anthem.python.org> From: barry@python.org (Barry A. Warsaw)
To: barry@python.org Subject: a simple multipart Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:05:05 ‐0400 X‐Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.4 (patch 4) "Artificial Intelligence" XEmacs Lucid X‐Attribution: BAW X‐Oblique‐Strategy: Make a door into a window
‐‐h90VIIIKmx Content‐Type: text/plain Content‐Disposition: inline; name="msg.txt" Content‐Transfer‐Encoding: 7bit
a simple kind of mirror to reflect upon our own
‐‐h90VIIIKmx Content‐Type: text/plain Content‐Disposition: inline; name="msg.txt" Content‐Transfer‐Encoding: 7bit
a simple kind of mirror to reflect upon our own
‐‐h90VIIIKmx‐‐