Data breaches are increasing in frequency and scale. With mass amounts of data leaked onto the dark web from “credential stuffing” attacks, more people want to know if their private information is secure. So they look for services like HaveIBeenPwned(HIBP), which has been rapidly increasing its user base as more people move to protect their […]
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Les nouvelles politiques de messagerie électronique de Gmail, Yahoo, et autres nécessiteront des domaines activés pour DMARC
Mise à jour : 20 janv. 2024 : La date limite du 1er février ne concerne que les domaines expéditeurs qui envoient plus de 5 000 messages par jour vers Google. À partir du 1er février, Gmail et Yahoo commenceront à appliquer l’exigence de Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (“DMARC”). DMARC est un protocole […]
New email policies at Gmail, Yahoo et al will require DMARC enabled domains
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 […]
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 […]
Canada’s Bill C-26: Yet Another Government Power Grab
Soviet Era Ethos Stomps Privacy and Due-Process Another doozy from the Canadian government. Following along several other bills winding their way along the Road to Serfdom… Bill C-11 regulates the internet under the CRTC and paves the way toward institutionalized content moderation, the requirement for licenses to publish online, and regulation of user generated content […]
