As of February 1st, Gmail and Yahoo will start enforcing a requirement for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (“DMARC“). DMARC is an IETF protocol as specified in RFC7489. It will initially affect large senders, defined as domains originating more than 5K emails per day into the Gmail system (this is the shape of things […]
Raising the identity theft bar when traveling
We are traveling at the moment, and I just went down to the hotel business center to print off a document. This hotel is using Microsoft boxes, so as I’m floundering around looking for how to access my USB stick, I end up in a browser and I see the desktop. On top of a […]
UK Version of “Online Harms Bill” wants to prefilter content without due process
Experts warn that ISPs would use black-box AI to comply Like our piece on Canada’s Cyber-Security Bill earlier this year, this item was flagged in my work for the Internet Society, Canada Chapter, but this post does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the ISCC. It concerns a legal opinion drafted by the UK’s Open […]
Announcing easyNostr-NIP05 for WordPress
We’re big fans of decentralized social media platforms (we’ve been operating a public Mastodon instance for years), so when Nostr came along (Notes And Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) it we immediately saw the potential and started getting involved. We wrote an introduction to Nostr here, and stood up a public Nostr relay at wss://nostr.easydns.ca […]
Unpkg.com outage and why half the web ground to a halt today.
If you’re like me, you were probably wondering why many the websites you were visiting today were grinding to a near halt. More than once I happened to notice that my browser status bar kept saying “waiting for unpkg.com…”, so I figured that had to be the problem. Twitter seems to concur… Unpkg .com is […]
easyNostr: Setup your NIP-05 ID under your own domain (or use one of ours)
Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) continues to gain traction and spread like wildfire. For those hearing about it for the first time, Nostr is a fully decentralized microblogging protocol (and not a platform, the way Mastodon is). It divides right down to the user account level, governed by an asymmetric key pair, which makes it even client agnostic […]
