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• Email for the modern world

  Posted on June 12, 2023 at 02:42 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  ON SECURITY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  When we go online, we begin with a basic tool that started us all on the technology journey years and years ago — an email address.

  Some people consider email addresses temporary, changing them often as they switch ISPs or other services. But others, perhaps a vast majority, consider them a matter of identity.

  Having dealt with clients, friends, and family for decades, I have some recommendations regarding the general use of an email address — including using it for authentication.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.24.0, 2023-06-12).

  On Security authentication, DKIM, Email, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts

• Why is email authentication changing?

  Posted on May 30, 2022 at 02:43 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  ON SECURITY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Throughout the lifetime of Internet-based email, we’ve been told over and over that it was dying, or soon to be dead.

  Then why are we still on a dead platform? Why aren’t we using some new, whiz-bang thing that was touted as so much better than email? There have been some proposed ideas, but they died off.

  I have a rather simple theory: Email comes to you — you don’t have to go find it. And it’s ubiquitous, too. No matter what device you’re using, what vendor it comes from, or what operating system it runs, email works.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.22.0, 2022-05-30).

  On Security authentication, Email, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts, Security