Thursday, July 1, 2021

The Impending Doom of Your Operating System Going to or Past 11, Versus the Lush Oasis of Open Source Systems

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Will the uncertainty over forced obsolescence of fairly recent hardware force Microsoft and Apple users to switch to open source alternative...
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Saturday, May 15, 2021

Are you aware what you lose by just clicking OK to get started using something?

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The right to privacy, the right to repair and the right to choose your tools for tasks at hand are aspects of the same. A new court ruling i...
Monday, February 22, 2021

RFC7505 Means Yes, Your Domain Can Refuse to Handle Mail. Please Leave Us a TXT If You Do.

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If you do not want a domain to receive any mail, there is a way to be at last somewhat civil about it. There's a different DNS trick for...
Friday, February 28, 2020

The 'sextortion' Scams: The Numbers Show That What We Have Is A Failure Of Education

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Subject: Your account was under attack! Change your credentials! From: Melissa <chenbin@jw-hw.com> To: adnan@bsdly.net Hello! I am a h...
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Saturday, December 28, 2019

The Year 2019 in Review: This Was, Once Again, Weirder Than the Last One

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The year is 2019. By now Blade Runner is a movie about the past, but there are still bots out there trying to guess our passwords. It gets ...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

Goodness, Enumerated by Robots. Or, Handling Those Who Do Not Play Well With Greylisting

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SMTP email is not going away any time soon. If you run a mail service, when and to whom you present the code signifying a temporary local pr...