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1 Billion Spam Caught

Dear Glenn:
On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot achieved a milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message. The billionth message was an United States Internal Revenue Service phishing scam sent to an email address that had been harvested more than two years ago. More than just a single spam email, the [...]

1and1 Email Notes

The webmail component that is part of 1and1 hosting plans is one of the worst email systems the Secure Surfing Organization has worked with.
Even using the optional “1&1 Easy Login” the webmail interface takes an unacceptably long time to load. It also does not play nice with some security software, causing users to disable safety [...]

Canada.com boots Secure Surfing Organization

Part of our efforts to learn and report about privacy, identity, malware, scams and other ill attentions on the internet involves becoming a user of various services. We also do so with complete transparency. disclosing our name and, wherever possible, creating a user account in the name of securesurfing or monitor.securesurfing.
This is not at all [...]

canada.com Terms and Condtions

Please Read These Terms And Conditions Carefully Before Using Any Website Services Provided To You By Canada.Com As They Contain Binding Legal Terms And Obligations Including Limitations Of Canada.Com’S Liability And Disclaimers.
Others in this Group An Introduction – Terms of Service – June 25, 20091and1 Terms and Conditions – August 4, 2009A9.com Conditions of Use – July 25, 2009Amazon.com Conditions of Use – July 25, 2009Anonymizer Terms of Use – July 10, 2009Aol Registered User Terms Of Service – August 2, 2009Aol.com Terms of Use – August 2, 2009Authorize.Net Terms of Use – August 1, 2009BBC Terms of Use – July 21, 2009BMO Bank of Montreal Legal Notices – July 27, 2009BMO Harris Private Banking …Read the rest – Canada.com Terms and Conditions

Do Not Use Real Names with Windows Live

Windows Live won’t let records die
A fundamental principal of privacy law and practice is that those who possess personally identifiable information are required to destroy that personal information after the purpose for which the person supplied the information is no longer operative.
Companies are not allowed to simply amass information about citizens and then hold on [...]

GMX.com a good choice

The free email service, GMX.com, is owned by the same company as 1and1 and a number of other independent brands.
Remember that the Secure Surfing Organization recommends that you do not use any mass market free email service as your primary personal or business email account. They are useful for joining stuff or registering with other [...]

Google freely admits it scans private email

Recently we have received numerous communications challenging the warning in our Privacy & Identity Overview (among other places) that Google scans and indexes private email sent from or to any GMail email address.
The claim is not an idle paranoia, but merely a reporting of Google’s own public statements.
"Like most email services, Gmail uses software to [...]

How to Join stuff online

The goal of joining a service, registering for a forum or subscribing to a feed is to provide some functionality, interest or entertainment. It is not to expose you to privacy, identity and reputation risks.
The best way to protect yourself is to avoid providing your personal information in the first place.

This does not [...]Others in this GroupAbout Your Own Web Address – July 26, 2009Choose a Safe Web Browser – June 28, 2009Choosing a host for your web site – August 8, 2009How to Join stuff online (This post) – July 25, 2009How to Research a domain name – July 10, 2009How to handle cookies – August 22, 2009How to transfer a domain away from 1&1 – …Read the rest – How to Join stuff online

How to understand e-mail headers

E-mail headers have a lot of data about which you need not be concerned. They do, however always carry at least one item about which you should care greatly.
Let’s dive in with an example. The following are the headers from an email message written on the webmail service, GMX.com through our user account safeweb@gmx.com. The [...]Others in this GroupAbout Your Own Web Address – July 26, 2009Choose a Safe Web Browser – June 28, 2009Choosing a host for your web site – August 8, 2009How to Join stuff online – July 25, 2009How to Research a domain name – July 10, 2009How to handle cookies – August 22, 2009How to transfer a domain away from 1&1 – September …Read the rest – How to understand e-mail headers

Hushmail -- maybe not so hush-hush

In our recent review of the Hushmail Privacy Policy we have to report it is lacking in full and frank disclosure and does not alert users to potential risks users face in using a Hushmail account.
In 2007 Hushmail, headquartered in Canada, turned over private emails to U.S. law enforcement under the “Mutual Assistance” pact the [...]

 
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