My understanding is that Obama will announce his choice for VP tomorrow by simultaneous email, im, voice mail delviery. To all his supporters at the same time.
Hmmm!
Will all that message traffic overwhelm the internet?
idunno, interesting question, don’t you think?
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http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Why_You_Should_Turn_Gmail_s_SSL_Feature_On_Now
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Why You Should Turn Gmail’s SSL Feature On Now
By Scott Loganbill August 19, 2008 Categories: Software & Tools, Web Basics
Let’s talk security and why you should take advantage of Gmail’s recent SSL feature, and why you might want to be careful using other non-SSL webmail services.
But first, make sure your connection is secured using SSL.
How do you know a connection is secured by SSL? The handy “s” after “http” will tell you. For example, https://mail.google.com is encrypted while http://mail.google.com is not. You can force an encryption by adding the “s” yourself, or by turning on “Always use https” from the Browser Connection settings of your Gmail account.
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http://www.itworld.com/tech-society/54193/beware-meta-password-reuse
Crimeware
by Markus Jakobsson
Security
What is worse than reusing passwords?
August 12, 2008, 09:22 PM —
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Do you use the same password all over the place? Yes, you probably do – whether you know it or not.
The fact is, while some people still casually use the same password for many sites, almost all of us reuse what we may think of as “meta passwords” – the information used to reset passwords. That, I argue, is worse than reusing passwords – but harder to avoid!
When you have forgotten your password, some sites send you an email with a link for you to click. Phishers who have stolen access to your email account can do that, too. Other sites will ask you for your mother’s maiden name, the name of your best friend, what city you grew up in, or what brand your first car was. Did you know that phishers can answer those questions, too?
Like the city you grew up in, your mother’s maiden name can be derived from public records – from birth certificates and marriage certificates to be specific. (Download PDF for details.) Facebook might unwittingly tell the name of your best friend. And,until quite recently, Ford with its 25% market share had a pretty good chance of being the brand of your first car!
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Nope, sorry, not on my accounts.
My mother’s maiden name has been successively — NU4H_ZQMQ, WUK6_BBV5, TJRC_UGLS, PFE8_RVSM, KZCW_Z8V8!
Score one for ROBOFORM’s ability to generate pseudo random trash.
I carefully inscribe these values to my book. You have to know that Page 72 is Yahoo. See on the first page it says Yahoo with 377251.
:-) and then I make my password “password”. :-)
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http://getsatisfaction.com/linkedin/topics/new_linkedin_group_issues
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New LinkedIn Group Issues
LinkedIn just changed (translation: “broke”) many things about LinkedIn Groups
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Unfortunately, when LinkedIn went for the big buxs, it showed the Leadership’s true colors. It tells you a lot about people. How do they follow their principles. I’ve become unenamoured with LinkedIn over the years. When they were struggling for traction, it was come one and come all. Then, they got testy with the super connectors. Then, they got testy with me, even though I am a paying customer, not a super connector, and not an open networker. Then, the final straw, they lawyered up on Vincent Wright, one of their early and most popular “champions”. He did more support then they did … for free. He single handly did more to keep their start ont he rise than they did. He finally got disgusted.
The LinkedIn folks better hop that no comptitor targets them. I think they’ll be lunch. No one is suggesting that they don’t have the right to make their rules. But, a little openness, gratitude, and appreciation of why they got all those big buxs.
It wasn’t them. It was all the Vincent Wrights, and a grazillion little people.
Where is the competition?
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akapost is a simple and easy way to protect your email identity from being exposed on the Internet.
With akapost, you can send and receive emails from any of your existing email accounts but still keep your actual email addresses private.
akapost works with any email client or device such as computer, cell phone, or handheld, etc. No software download or installation is required. Simply sign up and register your email address, it’s ready to go.
Protecting email identity has never been so easy – and yet it’s FREE!
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Hey, for free, how can you miss?
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YOU CAN HELP
Do you know someone who needs support due to cancer treatment, premature birth or chronic illness?
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Here’s a free website that allows the journaling of life events for sick folks (My experience has been two children; emotionally draining!)
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2008/07/in_memoriam_ed.html
The Gripe Line | Ed Foster » In memoriam: Ed Foster
July 28, 2008 | Comments: (57)
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In memoriam: Ed Foster
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We at InfoWorld are sorry to announce that Ed Foster, InfoWorld’s venerable The Gripe Line blogger died this past Saturday. We are all saddened by Ed’s passing but grateful for his 15 years of consumer advocacy in the field of technology products through The Gripe Line column and blog.
Ed has contributed to InfoWorld and the technology-using community at large in many ways during his 20-year association with us, as a reporter, writer, editor, and columnist at InfoWorld.
We will all miss his passion and professionalism.
Ed’s son, Jeff, wanted to share the following with Ed’s readers:
I’m sorry to inform you all that my dad, Ed Foster, died on Saturday of an apparent heart attack. He was 59. He was very proud of the work he had done and the community he had built here. He was very engaged in what you all had to say, and we had many running instant message conversations about comments or emails people had sent. He was an extremely smart man, and he loved to be mentally stimulated, whether it was a good book, an interesting conversation, or one of the many comments you posted that made him look at something in a slightly different way. As you can probably tell, I’m not half the writer my dad was, and it’s very difficult for me to think of the words to say what I feel (it doesn’t help that when I get stuck on a word or phrase, I think “I know, I’ll ask my dad!”), but I just want everybody to know that this site and the people on it meant a lot to him. I’m going to miss him. More then words could express, even if he was here to help me think of them.
We invite you to post your remembrances of Ed and any other sentiments you’d like to express at this time.
Posted by Galen Gruman on July 28, 2008 05:21 PM
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I’m stunned. Ed was always taking the technology vendors to task for all sorts of transgressions. A sigh of relief is comming form all the rip off artist in the technology field because Ed’s gone “off duty”. Ed was one of the few columnists that I followed religiously. Over the last eon it feels like, he and I exchanged emails about one scam or another. Some he even used in the column. Graciously concealing my identity when I was particularly brain dead and blunder into one scam or another. I feel the loss.
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It also points out the unfairness of Social Security, he paid in for three decades and his family has NOTHING to show for it! It’s robbery by the gang in DC.
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Argh, for as quick as it went last week, under an hour, this week is a DISASTER! All sorts of little problems leading up to the big one. 1AND1 tells me some fluff about my page is missing the L in html on the page and that’s why it is pushing the wrong page. Don’t sound right to me? I see all the files in place with the right names. Perhaps an index not updated on their end? Argh!
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Interesting, in doing my Jasper Jottings, I am often on the LEGACY site picking up obits. In some obits, they force a new sexy front end. Only one problem, it doesn’t FF3. It just goes in an endless loop “loading”. Like the good inet denizen I am, I reported it. Wonder if I’ll ever get a response. Wonder if I’ll ever get a fix. Wonder if anyone other than me cares. P.S. When I hit that particular ‘brick wall’ i go around it by using SAFARI. Interesting?
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2008/07/yahoo_plays_def.html
The Gripe Line | Ed Foster » Yahoo plays defunct DRM tune
July 24, 2008 | Comments: (0)
Yahoo plays defunct DRM tune
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It’s getting to be an old song. This week the Yahoo Music Store sent a message to customers saying they will turn off their DRM servers after September, thus joining MSN Music, Sony’s Connect music store and other online music services in eventually cutting off customers who purchased DRM-wrapped tunes. And readers have no doubt it’s a song the movie, e-book, and software publishers are also going to be singing in the future.
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So, do they give us a refund for DESTROYING a perfectly good working piece of software that they replaced with a POS?
Yeah, like that’s going to happen!
FTC? DOJ? Political help? Yeah, like that’s going to happen!
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