AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Dave VanHorn <dvanhorn@d...> wrote:

> At 10:06 AM 9/8/2004, Electronic Lithuania wrote:
> > I am trying to find a company or person able to
> > extract the programm/data memory from protected
> > ATmega128 and ...
 
> Why is Digikey looking for this?
> Are you really from Digikey?

No. If he was, he would probably have spelled it correctly with the 
hyphen and upper-case K. I also got his message directly. His e-mail 
address appeared as ltu_electronic at yahoo dot com.

He's obviously up to no good, but posing as someone else in e-mail 
isn't limited to the bad guys these days. I got an enquiry on my Web 
site asking for the source of my Dhrystone benchmark for MCUs. It is 
posted and freely available, but the enquirer didn't know that. He 
gave his real name but entered his personal e-mail address and a 
phony company name. When Google didn't turn up any references to the 
company, I peeked at the e-mail address from which he filled out the 
Web e-mail form. It was his name at ZiLOG dot com. So, ZiLOG staff 
are not above using false identities on the Internet. I gave him the 
link to the benchmark, told him I knew his real identity and we've 
had a few productive conversations about ZiLOG's many failings.

Graham.