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Darkmail aims to fundamentally change email by making it secure by default

January 7, 2015 by Paul Spoerry 6 Comments

 

If you don't already know this… your email is sent over the Internet unencrypted. It's the digital equivalent of sending a letter through the mail without an envelope. Anybody who comes across it can read it. The Darkmail Technical Alliance, which is composed of some heavy hitters like Lavabit founder Ladar Levison and PGP designer Phil Zimmermann, aim to change all of email with drop-in SMTP and IMAP replacements that will wrap messages in layers of encryption.

"Conceptually, DIME applies multiple layers of encryption to an e-mail to make sure that the actors at each stage of the e-mail’s journey from sender to receiver can only see the information about the e-mail that they need to see. The e-mail’s author and recipient both know who sent the message and where it was bound, but the author’s e-mail server doesn’t—it can only decrypt the part of the message containing the recipient’s e-mail server. The recipient e-mail server knows the destination server and the recipient, but it doesn’t know the sender. So if you arrange the four steps in a line from left to right—author, origin server, destination server, and recipient—each step in the line is only aware of the identity of the entity directly to its left or right."

This could be huge and it certainly has the right people in place to make it happen. They'll be submitting all of it to the IETF as a formal set of RFCs and there is even a pre-alpha GitHub repository.

Check out the rest of the article on Ars… it's really worth a read if you're at all curious about the subjects of security and/or email.

Src: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/lavabit-founder-wants-to-make-dark-e-mail-secure-by-default/

Check this out on Google+

Filed Under: Google+ Posts Tagged With: Darkmail, email, encryption, Lavabit, pgp, security

How Content Marketing Compares to Traditional Advertising Infographic

February 18, 2013 by Paul Spoerry 3 Comments

Content Marketing is a growing and powerful way that businesses of all sizes can use to reach their customers. As compared to traditional advertising, the focus is not to “interrupt” the user with a brand message. With content marketing the goal is to educate the potential customer, engage with them, build a relationship, and draw them closer to the brand.
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Filed Under: Business, Tech Tagged With: code, email, Marketing, PaulSpoerry, perfect

Gmail for Android Updated: Better Sync for Better Battery Life, Custom Notifications, and more

July 28, 2011 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Gmail has been updated with custom notifications, better sync for battery life, new picture options, and new message options.

Gmail Update What's New

A new update for Android’s Gmail app just showed up on the Android Market and it’s chocked full of goodness.

Here’s what’s new:

  • Save bandwidth and battery by only syncing priority mail: You can now pick which mail to sync, this should help conserve battery life. I’m most excited for this addition because I use a lot of labels and now you can choose which ones to keep synced, and which ones you want to update automatically.
  • Custom Notifications per label: For each label you are keeping synced, you can set custom notifications. You can decide if you want to receive notifications for a given label and give that label a distinct ringtone, choose to have it vibrate, and decide if you want it to only notify you on the first new e-mail.
  • Remember ‘Show Pictures’ for senders: The Gmail mobile app will now act just like the Gmail desktop app when it comes to displaying images in an email…. in other words, you can tell it to always display images from a particular sender.
  • Better TalkBack support for accessibility: TalkBack is an accessibility screen reader that provides spoken feedback.
  • Turn off sticky message actions in landscape or all orientations: The settings section has beefed up and you can now configure general preferences , preferences for individual accounts, and message actions. You can decide if you want to always show them, show them only in landscape, or only in portrait mode,
  • Performance enhancements: They didn’t say what other performance enhancements but performance boosts are always a good thing right?  😉
The only thing missing for me is the ability to hide certain labels from the app. There’s just some mail that I keep in archives, mail that come as notifications or from mailing list that I have automatically pushed to their own labels that I really never have any intention of needing to see while on my mobile phone. Still, this is a decent list of updates. More screen shots after the break… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Android, GMail, Google, Tech Tagged With: Android, email, show, sync, turn

How to Send and Receive Hotmail from Your Gmail Account

March 20, 2009 by Paul Spoerry 1,071 Comments

Ok so Hotmail is tired, and Gmail is wired. However, you’ve got so many people trained to use your old Hotmail address that you can’t just leave it behind. Well Mysticgeek of How To Geek shows you that you can setup Gmail to both send and receive using your @hotmail.com, @msn.com or @live.com email addresses… but from within Gmail instead. Note this isn’t the way that I do it, I have an OLD Hotmail account and it allows for email forwarding but this method should work for everyone else now that Hotmail has enabled POP access.

Enabling Hotmail from Gmail

First go into your Gmail account and select Settings then click on the Accounts tab, now click on “Add a mail account you own”.

add account

In the next screen enter in the Hotmail or Live address into the Address field then click on Next Step.

Email Address

In the next section we need to enter in the proper settings so the connections work.  Enter in your username and password for your Windows Live account.  Make sure the following settings are correct.

POP Server: pop3.live.com

Port: 995

Check Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail

You can also select leaving a copy on the server and archive incoming messages, these settings are per your preference and will not affect the connection.  When everything looks correct click on Add Account.

account settings

Note: If you want to leave your messages in your Hotmail account, make sure to select the option for “Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server”.

Next check “Yes, I want to be able to send mail as…” This will allow you to send email as your Hotmail or Live account then click Next Step.

Send Mail As

Now you can verify or edit the name on the email or if you’d like replies to be delivered to another account enter in a different Reply-to address.

Display

Finally Gmail will send a verification to your Hotmail or Live account.

Verification

Once you get the verification code enter it and click the Verify button and your done!

enter code

To send an email using your Hotmail account, just use the “From” drop-down when composing a new message.

From

Now you can Send and Receive your Hotmail in your Gmail Account! Thanks MysticGeek!

Filed Under: GMail, iGoogle, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: email

Offline Gmail .2 – you can now specify a maximum size for the downloaded attachments

February 12, 2009 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Offline Gmail has been updated to version 0.2. As with all Google Labs features it isn’t rolled out to all users yet but will show up soon. Once it’s out though you will be able to specify a maximum size for the downloaded attachments. If you don’t need to access attachments when you’re offline, you can disable the download of attachments.

A user of the Gmail Group has a workaround for those who don’t have the new version. “It seems to me that for existing users it’ll appear only when you disable and then again enable Gmail offline. And you won’t have to download your emails again; you can always choose them not to be removed while disabling Gmail offline.” To basically, disable Gears for Gmail, re-enable it once you have v0.2, and you’ll get the new enhancement.

Offline Gmail Attachment Settings

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Filed Under: GMail, Google, iGoogle, Tech, Web Life Tagged With: email, gears, google, google gears

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