OT: Is there possible juicy news????
October 23rd, 2014 at 9:54 AM ^
It appears that Brian got an email forwarded to him with presumably juicy news that he's trying to verify the authenticity of before releasing the information. He's trying to find out if somebody can fake an email address in a forwarded email.
October 23rd, 2014 at 9:57 AM ^
or Hoke?
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:04 AM ^
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:48 AM ^
He's a very good hacker.
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:05 AM ^
MGoBBQ?
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:38 AM ^
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:03 AM ^
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:06 AM ^
I think this is different. You'd have known if it was a real "any news?" thread because I would've already said something assholish.
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:09 AM ^
the flight plan of UofM's plane showing it landing in SF today and a passanger list showing an Ann Arbor realtor on board! If it isnt delete the email instantly.
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:17 AM ^
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:27 AM ^
It has to be more complicated than that:
@Dclowery this would have to be a truly elaborate hoax.
— mgoblog (@mgoblog) October 23, 2014October 23rd, 2014 at 10:22 AM ^
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:30 AM ^
Our worrying can't pick up A-Gap blitzes - so worrying about MSU is about as pointless as worrying about whatever this is.
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:32 AM ^
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:34 AM ^
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:36 AM ^
Juicy and ebola in the same sentence? Pass.
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:36 AM ^
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:37 AM ^
Possibly related to WD's alleged email from Brandon?
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:49 AM ^
I missed that one. Can you elaborate?
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:55 AM ^
There was a lot of flurry on the board about this one. This is the first thing that came up in the search.
October 23rd, 2014 at 11:03 AM ^
Ah. Ok I do remember that. I thought there might have been something else more recent that I missed. Thanks.
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:58 AM ^
WD posted an email sent to his aunt (or a friend of his aunt, or something) purportedly from DB saying "we will be fine without you. have a nice life." in response to .... something, presumably a threat to stop coming to games / sending money / etc. Authenticity was called into question and the original email sent to DB was missing. MGoBlog FOIA'ed the email chain to find out the rest of the story.
That said, I doubt this has anything to do with that, because I think Brian would be willing to take anything resulting from that at face value.
October 23rd, 2014 at 11:13 AM ^
I do remember that. I have to agree that it doesn't sound like it is likely to be related to that. I guess we will just have to wait for something to show up on the front page. I may not get much done at work today unless it shows up soon.
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:40 AM ^
Harbaugh can secure an endless supply of khaki's paid for by our great University if he so desires...
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:41 AM ^
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:41 AM ^
sitting at his computer right now, reading this thread, cracking up and just eating his popcorn.
October 23rd, 2014 at 10:49 AM ^
October 23rd, 2014 at 11:00 AM ^
October 23rd, 2014 at 11:06 AM ^
I don't always agree with Brian's opinions (especially lately), but I continue to value his opinions and visit this blog because I know they are always based on something real. Thank you for going through lengths to validate whatever information you've acquired instead of rumor mongering.
If it's good -- I hope we learn soon.
October 23rd, 2014 at 11:18 AM ^
Brandon is debuting a mascot for the IU game. Willy the Wolverine will roam the grounds outside the stands selling bottles of AbsoPure's new line of raw juice: SuprJooser High-Colonic Raspberry Purge®. No shit.
October 23rd, 2014 at 11:20 AM ^
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
October 23rd, 2014 at 1:32 PM ^
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
October 23rd, 2014 at 11:30 AM ^
This has to be about WD's friend's aunt's email, right?
Third party being the friend, who might have the full header.
I really hope the email is true. Not that I think anyone would really care nor that I think the president would fire him over an e-mail exchange, but it would really put me into the anti-Brandon camp. I don't like being so apathetic about it.
October 23rd, 2014 at 11:50 AM ^
Not necessarily.
Brian said he would get the reply to the FOIA request this coming Monday.
October 23rd, 2014 at 1:45 PM ^
confirmed
October 23rd, 2014 at 2:13 PM ^
Thanks for clarifying.
I still hate you.
October 23rd, 2014 at 11:33 AM ^
know what the hell is going on here
October 23rd, 2014 at 12:02 PM ^
Another vote for this:
It's easy to forge the sender/from info in the header.
It's easy to forge the host name of the sending server in the header.
It's difficult to forge the IP address of the sending server in the header.
Using that last bit (no pun intended), it's often possible to determine if the email was sent from a server authorized (through an MX record or SPF record) to send email from that domain (i.e. the "@domain.com" part).
But that's it: There's no way to determine if the email was somehow faked and relayed through a legit email server for the domain; a poorly configured email server can allow this. And there's no way to be certain that the sending account wasn't hacked/compromised and used to send a misleading or untrue email. I see this on a daily basis in my junk folder.
Edit to add: If the email was forwarded from a source, it wouldn't have the header required; the header would only have info on the transmission of the email from the source to Brian. To see/verify the header on the original email, that email would have to be sent as an attachment to another email. Each time an email is forwarded/replied to, the header is entirely rewritten.
October 23rd, 2014 at 12:26 PM ^
becoming the theatre of the absurd.
October 23rd, 2014 at 1:10 PM ^
October 24th, 2014 at 12:27 PM ^
Of course, the absurd is the best of all theaters.
October 23rd, 2014 at 1:23 PM ^
Brian confirmed in the mailbag thread that he is trying to confirm the WD "find another team" e-mail from Brandon.
October 23rd, 2014 at 2:42 PM ^
the taste
the taste
the taste
is gonna mooooooooove ya
October 23rd, 2014 at 2:45 PM ^
The deposed king of the 49ers has to wire his acceptance letter for the HC job and $10,000,000,000,000 USD into a bank account. Please respond quickly and receive "UNIMANGIABLE EARTHY AND HEAVANLY REWARDS"
October 23rd, 2014 at 2:48 PM ^
I could use some juicy news. Especially if it's about firing Brandon. Or hoke. Or everyone.
October 23rd, 2014 at 3:10 PM ^
Brian's pretty tech savvy and has probably already found something like this:
https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/messageheader/
But in case not.
Using PHP's mail() function or the Pear library, for example, you can construct your headers about anyway you'd wish to make it appear (on the surface) to have originated just about anywhere. Tracking backward through mail gateways to the last trusted one is the technique, I gather. A little bit of reading up on the topic piques my interest, but I haven't any experience sleuthing email origins out, just scripting outbound emails.