Emails From Steve

July 8th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk

Looking to get into the fun (and appar­ently lucra­tive) game of shop­ping around emails from Steve Jobs, I went ahead and sent him a note. Imagine my utter shock and amaze­ment when he answered. Here is a copy of our exchange:

Darby,

Glad to hear it. By the way, love the pod­cast, Angry Mac Bastards is required lis­ten­ing here at 1 Infinite Loop. Oh, and stop com­plain­ing about your white iPhone 4. A lit­tle bird tells me that you’ll be get­ting a sur­prise soon. Think uni­corn ivory with a mer­maid skin bumper.

Sent from my uni­corn ivory iPhone

>Steve,

>I’m lov­ing your new “fuck the haters” atti­tude. “You’re hold­ing it wrong” indeed.

What, you say you don’t believe me. You say that I’m mak­ing this up. Well, here is incon­tro­vert­ible proof. Behold the iron-clad evi­dence that is EMAIL HEADERS:



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Now, of course that isn’t real. In fact it’s a fairly half-assed fake, but then again I only spent about ten min­utes work­ing on it. The point is, when­ever some moron attempts to claim that EMAIL HEADERS prove their bull­shit story; they should be lit on fire and thrown out of a win­dow. Email is the eas­i­est thing in the uni­verse to fake. Or did you really think that your grand­mother thinks that you need (ahem) male enhance­ment.

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  • Cthellis

    No WONDER she looked so embar­rassed when I con­fronted her about it!

  • http://mangochut.net/ man­gochut­ney

    To be hon­est, I deemed the mails on BGR gen­uine, sim­ply because it looked like Steve was try­ing to rea­son with a youtubian lunatic.
    I thought it was quite funny, because those mails made the faker look like a com­plete nut and noth­ing else.

    Also: When you finally get it, I want to touch that uni­corn iPhone 4!

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    The thing is, it doesn’t even mat­ter if any par­tic­u­lar steve­mail is legit (although I’d be inclined to believe Apple PR over some fuck­tard blog­gers). The issue here is these sup­posed “tech” “jour­nal­ists” who are igno­rant of even the basics of how this shit works. And yet the rest of the blo­gos­phere eats their crap like it’s gourmet chocolate.

  • http://mangochut.net/ man­gochut­ney

    I did some research on the mat­ter of header forgery after you and the other two talked about it on AMB.
    It sur­prised me how insanely easy it is. I’ve never been sub­ject to this kind of shenani­gans, so I didn’t know much about it.

    But you’re right; peo­ple are stu­pid and they love sen­sa­tions, but it’s still kind of sad. I like me some Apple prod­ucts, but I couldn’t care less about those mails, even if some of them are from el chefe.
    I won­der how peo­ple would react if Steve just send the audio record­ing of a fart as an answer in the future.
    They’d prob­a­bly inter­pret the fre­quency curve…

  • http://www.technovia.co.uk Ian Betteridge

    As some­one who used to spend many a happy hour using tel­net to get directly into SMTP servers to spoof emails from friends, I con­cur :) While email forgery isn’t quite as easy as it used to be, forg­ing head­ers is so triv­ial it’s not true.

  • http://www.technovia.co.uk Ian Betteridge

    As some­one who used to spend many a happy hour using tel­net to get directly into SMTP servers to spoof emails from friends, I con­cur :) While email forgery isn’t quite as easy as it used to be, forg­ing head­ers is so triv­ial it’s not true.

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    Ah yes, the good old days of screw­ing peo­ple with email. My favorite was own­ing a domain that was one char­ac­ter off from my employ­ers inter­nal cor­po­rate domain. Good times.

  • http://www.theangrydrunk.com The Angry Drunk

    Ah yes, the good old days of screw­ing peo­ple with email. My favorite was own­ing a domain that was one char­ac­ter off from my employ­ers inter­nal cor­po­rate domain. Good times.