… … to stop phishing, to track results, and to authenticate correspondents.
I was moved to write to a national technology figure about phishing. She was recommending a tool to authenticate websites and prevent phishing. I think I came up with a way to handle it awhile ago. Zero cost , of course. And easy to implement. Here’s my note, which I then put on a job search site I like.
WRT: Phishing
A while ago, before Yahoo came up with Address Guard, before GMAIL made extra email addresses commonplace, I focused on the idea of using different email addresses for different purposes. One specific email address for financial traffic, another for orders, and others for topical use. Thus when phishes came in on ANY of the non-financial email, they were so obvious there was no doubt.
Now with Address Guard, a yahoo subscriber can assign each correspondent their “own” email address. For free, a GMAIL user can accomplish the same thing with either multiple free gmail accounts or that new plus feature. So for a user at any level to be phished now days is kind of hard to believe.
In fact, it is so easy to assign different email address to different correspondents, that I have been doing it for other purposes. When you throw in the ability to manage email traffic by rules in most email packages, it really serves to “authenticate” email traffic is “good” stuff.
It even helps with plain old spam. For example, if some things comes in on a non-assigned email address, it stands a high probability of being spam.
Until we get to ipv6 and absolutely authentic email verification, this can serve to minimize the risk of being fooled.
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