By me at Forbes: Google’s Gmail, Photos, Docs, Drive purge starts tomorrow. How to protect your data, and why Google is right on the #infosec reasoning. Kudos Ian Thornton-Trump CD, Javvad Malik, Jamie Akhtar, Elliott W. for input.
To get a logo and blue checkmark as a verified BIMI sender in #Gmail, organizations have to shell out $1,500/year to buy a digital certificate proving ownership of a trademarked brand. Seriously? Talk about gatekeeping and commercializing what should be free and easily accessible #security features. #WTF
The countdown clock for the great inactive Google account purge is ticking. Act fast to save your old Gmail and Photos content. Here’s what you need to know and do.
There is no such thing as "#lawful#access". Encryption is #math. There is no math that the "good guys" can do but which cannot be done by the "bad guys".
Anyone who suggests different is #lying, to #spy on you.
I meant that #literally - correspondence on #paper in paper envelopes.
As for #email encryption, it's still too difficult for the average person to set up and use (correctly). Even if you're capable of it, you cannot assume the people you communicate with will be equally proficient.
So anything truly #confidential I do not send by email, ever. Then to minimize the remaining risk, I run my own mail service. #Gmail still has half my email, because they have half of everyone's email.
Anyone seeing odd behavior from #Gmail filters starting in the last couple of days? I have examples of messages that should have gotten labels from long standing filters, but didn't and aren't, and I can't find any obvious explanations. Thanks.
By me at Forbes: With over 333 billion emails being sent and received daily, Gmail is a treasure trove of valuable data for hackers. Google has launched its latest Titan security key, but here are three no-cost ways to stop them.
Tiens, je vais chercher une alternative à #Gmail parce que ça fait partie de la feuille de route de tout Fédiversien.
Alors que dit ce premier site : Microsoft Outlook… ok lol, puis Apple mail pour lire son adresse gmail ou thunderbird… Mon dieu :blob_cat_oh_no: c'est pas les couteaux les plus afutés du tiroir.
Stavo pensando che aprire innumerevoli caselle mail su #Gmail per poi riempirle solo di spam, newsletter a caso spammando in giro l'indirizzo poteva essere un'idea divertente per andare in culo a quelli di Mountain View. Poi m'è venuto in mente che quei dannati server inquinano ammerda e non mi sembra più un'idea tanto furba.
Ich wünschte, ich wäre so mutig und würde den Wechsel von #Gmail nach #Protonmail durchziehen.
Es geht dabei um nicht weniger als rund 158'000 Mails aus den letzten 24 Jahren...
Should your account be lost, you'll lose access to everything. That means your #Gmail, #GDrive contents, #YouTube and workspace apps. Any valuable cloud stored content will be gone forever. The loss of a Gmail account could have follow-on effects such as the loss of other accounts that use Gmail as a login.
Wait, you can't add links in the Gmail mobile app? What madness is this? What's the best workaround for that?
Update: To be clear, I'm talking about typing some text, selecting it, then attaching a link to that selected text. Not just pasting in the URL as text.
@kev The #1 problem that I deal with regarding email (and which I thought your blog was going to be about) is that people send me HTML email WITH A SMALL FONT.
People just don't seem to realize that if they specify a font size when sending email it ain't gonna work for THE RECEIVER'S EYES.
#gmail actively encourages this behavior by allowing you to set a "Default Text Style" that is used on send, not on receive. (I've filed bugs internally that have been ignored.)