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Comment Hint to secure email (Score 3, Informative) 986

A sad day for the entire IT world indeed :( It’s interesting that PJ is recommending https://mykolab.com/ as a way to have secure emails:

If you have to stay on the Internet, my research indicates that the short term safety from surveillance, to the degree that is even possible, is to use a service like Kolab for email, which is located in Switzerland, and hence is under different laws than the US, laws which attempt to afford more privacy to citizens. I have now gotten for myself an email there, p.jones at mykolab.com in case anyone wishes to contact me over something really important and feels squeamish about writing to an email address on a server in the US.

Microsoft

Journal Journal: Windows 7 to hit consumers with known security problem

Microsoft is about to launch its new operating system, Windows 7, on Thursday. While the company has done a lot to promote its new product with advertisement, in order to forget the very relative success of Windows Vista, it seems that security was not as much as a priority...

Software

Submission + - FSFE launches Free PDF Readers campaign

FSFE Fellow writes: "The Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe is proud to announce its latest initiative: pdfreaders.org, a site providing information about PDF with links to Free Software PDF readers for all major operating systems.

"Interoperability, competition and choice are primary benefits of Open Standards that translate into vendor-independence and better value for money for customers," says FSFE president Georg Greve. "Although many versions of PDF offer all these benefits for formatted text and documents, files in PDF formats typically come with information that users need to use a specific product. pdfreaders.org provides an alternative to highlight the strengths of PDF as an Open Standard.""

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