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        <title><![CDATA[Edmonton]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-311871-3112419]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Wow you are from Edmonton too?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MPG187]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:50:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In case no one answers...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gmail is the only free email service that encrypts from beginning to end; and even then it just barely does that. However it is better than all other free providers.When you log on to your Yahoo email, your log on is encrypted but not the rest of your session with Yahoo! mail. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[JCitizen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:59:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Video: Five email safety tips everyone should follow]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am not an IT person but I watch your blogs all the time.  This one bothered me enough to make me ask a few questions.   I have been using Yahoo mail for the better part of 10 years.  It has had problems but mostly I like it.  You said view email as plain text.  Can you tell me how to configure yahoo mail to do that or is that not possible?  You all so said to I should not be &quot;Using unencrypted e-mail authentication&quot;,  I have to log in to use my Yahoo email is that what you mean or am I wrong on that?  You all so mentioned encryption and decryption of email, can that be done on Yahoo mail?Thank you Lee]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lee_in_ftc]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:20:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[If I remember correctly]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[POP3 and IMAP use clear text authentication out of the box, so your username and password are there for all to sniff.  I believe they can both be configured to use TLS to encrypt such traffic, but that is an administrative headache that most ISPs wouldn't go for.  What this boils down to is, simply, expect email to be read by all and sundry, not just the recipient, so don't put anything in there that you don't want all and sundry to read.  As far as webmail goes, HTTP is cleartext, HTTPS is encrypted.  The prefix does matter.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:12:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Video: Five email safety tips everyone should follow]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Check before you click!Mouse over that link and check the real address of that link before you let it take you on a ride. Is it pointing to a clone website instead of the real thing? Is the link extremely long - like a buffer overflow? Does this link to an executable?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rm@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:22:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Proofreading - A Lost Art?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-311871-3108085]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[While trying to keep me head above the IT waters, I do a lot of reading. In most of what I read are silly mistakes that the spellcheck should have picked up, and as the acronyms are produced at the speed of light, a lot of authors do get them mixed up. But this one... that's just embarrassing.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AllGeek2Me]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:57:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[government?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What's the government got to do with it?  The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the entity that oversees global IP address allocation, root zone management for the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol related assignments. It is operated by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as ICANN.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:59:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Isp's and encryption]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I know of very few ISP's that support encryption of the authentication process. This isn't something the user has control over. Add to that that many do not live in metro areas and have only one or two choices of isp's.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:49:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[have additudes changed?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Not long ago the idea of having a web based email account was a valid way to &quot;test&quot; a site such as a shopping site to see if spam was created by that site selling your email address, there by preventing your isp email from being revealed and keeping spam out of your personal account. This concept was actually supported by C.E.R.T.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:41:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Video: Five email safety tips everyone should follow]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The inadvertent &quot;send&quot; to an incorrect address can be a tremendous problem if you are sending confidential information.  One famous story is the email from the big law firm lawyer about a secret settlement that went to Berenson the NY Times Reporter, instead of Berenson the cocounse.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dbrezina@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:43:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Video: Five email safety tips everyone should follow]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[No player visible - can't watch the video. There seems to be a Javascript error on page (contacted Bill about it)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:27:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Video: Five email safety tips everyone should follow]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It should of been seven email safety tips everyone should follow.The number one safety tip is to treat email like a postcard.number seven is: Never EVER place personal identifiable information in a email.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:04:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Video: Five email safety tips everyone should follow]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Good stuff keep it comming one can never be to careful. Your tips keeps us on our toes.rvelez_hawaii]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:24:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Video: Five email safety tips everyone should follow]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It may be true that these tips are not perfect solutions but they were simple, practical, and, above all, better than being totally naive.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[donnakline@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:29:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks BALTHOR.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Always appreciate a new resource.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[boxfiddler]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:28:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My e-mail comes to my IP address]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Some IP addresses are ISP's or web sites.If the government thought this one out absolutely everybody would have their own IP address.http://aruljohn.com/info/howtofindipaddress/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[BALTHOR]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:17:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mistake, IMPA Client]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On tip two the text says IMPA instead of IMAP!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MPG187]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:17:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Video: Five email safety tips everyone should follow]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[all of the listed vote catetgories are a threat.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rick.dash@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:14:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It might be]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[that at least one of the mentioned web-mail services has openly stated that they pay for the service by scanning your emails and then using the data for directed advertising.  Most ISPs aren't supposed to scan your email, and once you download it to your PC is off of their servers, or at least in theory.  After all, your connection fees pay for everything.  Web-mail services keep the email on the web, not your local drive.Truth is, there is no real way to completely protect yourself from spammers and their ilk.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[melias@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:53:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Web mail vs. alternative]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think the issue needs to be broken down a bit. It may not be a good idea to use commercial web based mail for business purposes, though using the business versions of those services are probably OK - for example Google Apps for Business.Web bases mail for personal use is really all there is. The point that may be being made is that using a POP3/SMTP client may offer more privacy protection, assuming all messages are removed from the server at access time. This may be more private, but it also goes against some of the reasons why you have a public e-mail host in the first place. For example, being able to access your mail from any device anywhere, any time.Not using HTML mail is a good idea, though I prefer using HTML for mail I send, receiving it from unknown folks is a risk. Ideally, one's mail clients and security settings would work together to limit HTML mail in to only &quot;white list&quot; accounts. (I don't know if any of the products do this.)Also, if privacy really matters, then encryption is the only useful option. This means encryption of the authentication process and of the communications session (https for web mail) and of the messages themselves.Since most companies don't support encryption and to this date there's no truly accessible and practical encryption key tool set, it will be a while before encryption becomes prevalent enough to be a useful option. (The technology exists, but to work everyone needs to use an interoperable encryption schema. And there's more to it than that.)Basically, the video is just another FUD message from the media. There's truth to the content, but so much is left out that the point becomes irrelevant.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:19:04 -0700</pubDate>
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