I don't exactly blame Proton Mail for disclosing to Swiss authorities since they are under Swiss law, but they need to be up front about what they can disclose, and need to own that it can easily go right back to US law enforcement.
Proton CEO Andy Yen tweeting in December 2024 "Great pick by @realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned."
I don't know if this guy is Secret MAGA, an idiot, or both. But he isn't neither and I've been wary of Proton ever since.
Hey remember when Proton’s CEO said Republicans are better than Democrats when it comes to regulating Big Tech and standing for “the little guys”?
I attended a presentation on the Chinese-run Myanmar scamming complexes a while back, so reading this NYT article taking a closer look at them was interesting. I feel so bad for the victims of trafficking and job scams who end up working in these places.
Gotta get through the "data privacy training" for work. It referenced a study done by IBM in 2020 that said 80% of businesses said their customers' personal information had been compromised. And I mean, that's just the ones that owned up to it!
Phishing & cyber-enabled fraud are exacting a heavy toll. How can we shift our efforts upstream? A new report from World Economic Forum & Institue for Science and Technology calls for embedding user safety by default #CyberCivilDefense #Take9
Learn more: www.weforum.org/publications...
A coworker brought up LinkedIn Learning; my only recent referent for that has been some Facebook ads telling me I might be entitled to financial compensation if I'd used it. Just looked up what that's about: www.courthousenews.com/judge-advanc...
...ARGH this is twice in one week now! This time, a financial institution whose "verify your email" email isn't set up with DMARC. Nooooooo.....
I read a book called IBM and the Holocaust and let me tell you, this goes nowhere good. Nazis used innocently-collected census data long after the fact to find people, and we are long past "it can't happen here." Census data privacy IS ESSENTIAL TO OUR SAFETY.
Registered with a city platform to put a comment on upcoming council motion and the email went to my spam folder due to a DMARC failure, so now I'm emailing a bunch of people at the city to get them to make their vendor fix it. Email geek civic busybody mode: engage!
Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.
Really excellent piece on the GOP attempting to intimidate Google over putting messages in the spam folder even though those messages give off significant signals that indicate they are unsolicited. It is not partisan to use functional spam filtering.
!! Email PSA !! Got an old Yahoo account you want but ignore? They just reduced the amount of free storage you get, so if you don't pay or delete stuff, your email might be bouncing as of 8/27/25. This is your call to login and make sure everything still works.
DMARC is a goal and then a maintenance practice. Orgs need to be prepared to maintain DMARC compliance as part of their regular audit and security. You wouldn't let all your former employees keep active logins and keys to the office, right?? So don't continue authorizing old vendors, either!
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Cybercriminals gave Brian Krebs some pretty amazing lines in this criminal complaint.
"“Krebs is not the one you want to have on your back. Not because he is scary or something, just because he will not give up UNTIL you are [expletive] [expletive]."
Awesome.
krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/oreg...
One of the reasons I love email and have made it the center of my career is that it is so flexible and extensible and, yes, irrepressible.
DMARCbis Updates: Proposed changes to the DMARC Specification- dmarcian
The #DMARC spec is getting an update. The IETF is proposing changes—DMARCbis—to improve clarity, flexibility, and ease of deployment.
Get the breakdown of what's changing and learn how you can prepare: dmarcian.com/dmarcbis-vs-...
#DMARCbis #DKIM #EmailAuthentication
Recently saw an amazing presentation from StopScamsAlliance.org. I loosely follow the anti-scam protections world, but even I was surprised by some of what I learned, particularly the degree to which scams are funding foreign adversaries (and I don't say that lightly).
I mean, they've been a sabotage risk since day 1 (not even commenting on my dislike of their work, but they were always loyal to Musk and not Trump). It would be great if he would remand them to custody to be prosecuted for their crimes, though.
Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?
Recognizing the risks tariffs pose, some brands are using their marketing programs to position themselves with their customers to try to minimize the impact on their customer relationships—with more messaging to come in the months ahead. www.cmswire.com/digital-mark... #digitalmarketing
Somebody needs to get M3AAWG over to Bluesky.
Nice to see you around these parts!
Going to be attending a work conference in Canada soon, flying nonstop from the US... so tell me, why did United Airlines just email me about RealID? These flights require a passport, RealID is not going to do anything for me.
The uncomfortable confusion of loading a website that has switched to light mode without permission
BREAKING: The price of Barbies in the United States are rising fast. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/b...
The best things about my occasional forays into the office: 1. seeing a few of my favorite coworkers 2. nice chance to walk around the city for a bit with my headphones on 3. that spooky liminal feeling of a deserted office after almost everyone's gone for the day.
First time I've heard of whiskey as an investment scam, but sadly will probably not be the last. www.bbc.com/news/article...
