I try to make a habit of giving out “tagged” email addresses to web sites when I sign up for accounts / mailing lists / whatever. For example, when creating an account at widgets.com, instead of just signing up as “jik@kamens.us”, I might sign up as “jik+widgets@kamens.us”. It ends up in the same mailbox regardless,… Read More: A study in contrasts: handling stolen email lists »
I recently encountered a bizarre problem with Mail.app, the email client included in Mac OS X, that took me quite a while to solve (with no help from AppleCare; more on that in a separate blog posting). I’m posting about the problem and its solution here so that, with any luck, the next person who… Read More: Mac OS Mail.app suddenly stops being able to send mail,… »
You’ve probably heard by now (the party line from Gawker, an a much more comprehensive analysis from Forbes) that a huge database of Gawker Media usernames and (poorly) encrypted passwords was recently stolen, and that the thieves published the stolen data for anyone in the world to download, and that the thieves managed to crack… Read More: The wrong way to be a good samaritan »
Yesterday, my wife forwarded to me an email message she had received from our children’s school to ask me a question about it. I should have received the same message, but I hadn’t. A little research in the mail server logs revealed that she has received seven messages from the school in the past three… Read More: When “Constant Contact” Isn’t »