Modulations
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When UI design kills security?
We want to protect the users from spam and phish. We develop special filters, authentication methods, reputation systems to remove 99% of the spam trying to reach people's mailbox, but there is still some malware that reaches the inbox.
Books, Books, Books!
Here is a selection of books I have read that you may enjoy.
Training Data Werewolves
How email be difficult? You open port 25, send the message and voila! As I tend to say, the S in SMTP means Simple.
The power of wireless for tourist businesses
It seems it is always the people that had a bad experience that will make it a mission to write reviews. I started to stop reading reviews on Yelp, because they are not helping me to choose a place.
The Cost of Email on mobile platforms
I have been to a few pacific islands countries, and recently in Fiji, the SMS Roaming welcome message made me start to think about the cost of Emails on mobile platforms.
From IP to Domain reputation,...
Some days, SPAM, the emails people do not want, can represent between 70 to 90% of all email traffic. A large portion of these emails come from compromised machines, either individual machines at home, or machines at large hosting facilities.
The Robustness principle and email
John Postel wrote in RFC 761: "TCP implementations should follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."