La Esponja Grande

May 14-15, 2010

Adam Falk's Email

Public Email

The Gmail account mister.adam.falk@gmail.com could be hacked into with the password alexander. The In Box was empty, and this is how the Out Box looked:

Here are the messages, from oldest to newest, slightly reformatted for archival purposes:

from        Adam Falk 
to          mihai.theman@williams.edu
date        Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:47 PM
subject     Haussdorff Dimension
mailed-by   gmail.com
	
Prof. Stoichu--

I enjoyed the talk today, though most of it went over my head.  One 
thing I never understood about set measures--how can an infinite set 
have measure zero?

AF
from        Adam Falk 
to          bill.nolongerthepresident.wagner@williams.edu
date        Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:49 PM
subject     End of Year Events
mailed-by   gmail.com
	
Thanks for all the help getting me settled with all of this, Bill.  Any 
special protocol I should know about for the Senior Week events?

AF
from        Adam Falk 
to          ella.simpson36890@yahoo.com,johanna.watson80991@hotmail.com
date        Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:52 PM
subject     Re: a lead
mailed-by   gmail.com
	
Glad to here you've settled things with the Amherst DS, and glad to know 
I was able to be of assistance.  Again, I'm sorry things turned out the 
way they did, and we still don't know why our budget ended up coming up 
so short--we're going to have to take a look at that over the summer. 
Good luck in the Pioneer Valley.

AF
from        Adam Falk 
to          napoleon.the.ivth@mywebdomain.net
date        Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:55 PM
subject     Query
mailed-by   gmail.com
	
Hey, I know you're probably busy this time of year (so are we all), but 
there's something puzzling me around here, and I wondered if you might 
know something about it.  When would be a good time this week to call?

AF

Attached to this was a bounce message:

from        Mail Delivery Subsystem 
to          mister.adam.falk@gmail.com
date        Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:08 PM
subject     Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
	
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

    napoleon.the.ivth@mywebdomain.net

Technical details of permanent failure:
The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more 
at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7720
[mywebdomain.net (1): Connection refused]
from        Adam Falk 
to          napoleon.the.ivth@mywebdomain.net
date        Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:16 AM
subject     Re: query
mailed-by   gmail.com
	
Well, if you feel that way about it, I'll email you from my other 
account later today.  (It gets everything I get here anyway.)  Do you 
have some other account you want to use?

AF
from        Adam Falk 
to          lisagcorrin@wcmuseumofart.williams.edu
date        Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:21 AM
subject     Meeting?
mailed-by   gmail.com
	
Hi there, Lisa.  Can I stop by to chat with you about something next 
week?  It's just an odd little quirk.  When are you free?

AF
from        Adam Falk 
to          mike.conforti@theclarkmusem.org
date        Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:53 AM
subject     Re: outing
mailed-by   gmail.com

That's very generous of you!  Had I mentioned that they'd been upset 
that we'd gotten up here just as everything melted?  I can't go, of 
course--business here--but they said they'd love to.  (I think I'm the 
only one of us to have ever even been to Maine.) It's a little sudden, 
but you only live once, right?  Anyway, thanks a lot--they'll meet you 
after dinner to drive up.

AF

Forwarding

If you checked the settings on the Gmail account, you found this under "Forwarding and POP/IMAP":

indicating that, as hinted in the message of 11:16 AM on May 12, Adam had another email account to which all of his Gmail was copied, namely williamsprez4life@yahoo.com.

Secret Email

You could hack into the secret account with the password briauna. There you would find this in the outbox:

Here are the messages, from oldest to newest:

From:     Adam Falk 
To:       brian.badass.hirshman@gmail.com
Date:     Tue, May 11, 2010 6:58:46 PM
Subject:  Paint

Well, it got the campus riled up.   Don't worry--even though there's 
still a lot of pressure to maintain the existing system, it's becoming 
more and more unpopular, and I suspect that if we keep this up a little 
longer I'll be able to play peacemaker and get the whole thing replaced 
within a year or two.  A shame, though--this stuff is harder to get off 
than I'd thought.  Ah well--that's what you get for going through with 
these little hairbrained schemes.

AF
From:     Adam Falk 
To:       napoleon.the.ivth@hiddenaccounts.com
Date:     Wed, May 12, 2010 11:25:20 AM
Subject:  Ninepins Lane

So here's what's been puzzling me.  One of the little perks I've enjoyed 
about the residence is the ninepines lane downstairs--nobody else in the 
family has any interest, but it makes me feel like more of a New 
Englander.  Anyway, while I was bowling last week I walked down the lane 
to fix up one of the pins, then tripped and fell into the back of the 
lane.  But when I hit the back wall, instead of just giving me a bruise, 
it gave way, and suddenly I could see this whole secret alcove behind 
the lane.  And in there were a bunch of  paintings, probably twenty or 
so--landscapes.  I couldn't really make anything out about them--not my 
field--but they look sort of like some of the paintings in the first 
couple rooms at the Clark.  (Corot?)

Anyway, I haven't told anyone else about this yet.  Did you know about 
this?  Do you have any idea what's going on?

AF
From:     Adam Falk 
To:       napoleon.the.ivth@hiddenaccounts.com	
Date:     Wed, May 12, 2010 11:27:40 PM
Subject:  Re: your message

Sure, I'd like to get this cleared up as soon as possible.  How early?

AF

The inbox was not, in this case, empty, but all the messages in there were delivery failure notices for the messages we've already seen.


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