, 2006-05-30
Kelly Martin takes a step back from e-mail's unstoppable phishing-virus-spam epidemic and imagines a world where secure e-mail could be the next big killer app.
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Rubbish! What are the probIem ISSUES ????
2006-05-31
Dom De Vitto (1 replies)
Dom De Vitto (1 replies)
Re: Rubbish! What are the probIem ISSUES ????
2006-06-01
Jeff H (1 replies)
Jeff H (1 replies)
Re: Re: Rubbish! What are the probIem ISSUES ????
2006-06-01
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
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2006-06-06
Jeff H (1 replies)
Jeff H (1 replies)
Um, I Have Your Solution
2006-06-01
Reynolds Kosloskey (3 replies)
Reynolds Kosloskey (3 replies)
I spend all day using email as i work for a major blue chip company in Bristol and it is useless. I would like to see read reciepts as standard in a new mail protocal, just like SMS delivery reports are available to almost all.
Also direct access to my webmail box would be great, maybe in the same way that you can http to somewhere maybe there could be something like MAIL://jehicks.gmail.com/ Maybe web mail could also be standardized so that jehicks.gmail.com took me to my inbox, jehicks.gmail.com/send took me to a send dialoge, /archive for my archive et cetera.
If it were standardised like that then it would be alot easier to make browsers better clients for webmail. For example firefox could remember where my send from is located so i could use SEND://KMartin.securityfocus.com and my browser would, rather than launch a standalone client, open my send page and put in your address. Maybe SEND:// could also accept other parameters, like a subject.
I realise that this is already probably possible with some clever browser plugins but if webmail were standardised then it would become a standard feature in browsers.
Obviously however this feature wouldnt suit all so there would have to be an option to treat SEND as MAILTO currently is.
In your article you mention Google, maybe someone should get in contact with them because they have a fair bit of clout in the technology world and probably have the brain power to design/spec something major like this and they are renowned for new innovation.
Redmond would be a bigger fortress to topple, but with people like google (and therefore people like Sun) backing it then it may not be such a mamoth task. If a reasonable protocal/standard could be drawn up I think it would have a huge backing from most, if not all, ISPs and government agencies.
Brilliant article, found it from TheRegister but SecurityFocus is now on my bookmarks!
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John Hicks
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