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Submission + - New privacy oriented FOSS web-mail: Mailpile

Submitted by Juggler
Juggler writes: Mailpile, a new Free Software project out of Iceland, launched at the #OHM2013 hacker festival in Holland today. The talk's brief demo garnered rounds of applause and was followed by the launch of an Indiegogo campaign which, if funded, will allow them work full time on building a modern e-mail/web-mail client. The team's main goals are to address the usability issues that prevent non-technical folks from taking advantage of secure e-mail today, bring new life to FOSS e-mail development and provide a realistic alternative to keeping e-mail in the cloud.
Mozilla

FireFox 3.1 Leaves IE in the Dust 435

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i-just-want-fewer-beachballs dept.
Anonymous writes "Granted, FireFox 3.1 is just a beta and IE 8 is also in beta, but it looks like Microsoft has some ground to make up when it comes to browser performance. Given that Mozilla appears to be on a much faster cycle than Microsoft with this stuff, it's also possible that it could increase the gap even more before IE 8 is GA, no?"

Comment Re:Bookmark sharing without using third party serv (Score 1) 195

by tsinterface (#23798231) Attached to: Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued
> Having bookmarks stored on third party servers
> (Mozilla weave, Foxmarks, Google browser sync, Opera's Bookmarks sync,etc ) will always suffer from insecurity mentioned in the last line of the
> summary.
Not with Weave. Weave encrypts your data and the private key is stored only locally (not on their servers).
Privacy

Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google 296

Posted by kdawson from the clickstream-of-the-world dept.
iritant writes "As we were discussing, Gran Paradiso — the latest version of Firefox — is nearing release. Gran Paradiso includes a form of malware protection that checks every URL against a known list of sites. It does so by sending each URL to Google. In other words, if people enable this feature, they get some malware protection, and Google gets a wealth of information about which sites are popular (or, for that matter, which sites should be checked for malware). Fair deal? Not to worry — the feature is disabled by default."
Microsoft

Submission + - OOXML won't get fast-track ISO standardization (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by realdodgeman
realdodgeman writes: International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) recently held an internal poll to determine the position that the United States should take on Microsoft's request for Office Open XML (OOXML) approval. With eight votes in favor, seven against, and one abstention, the group was one vote short of the nine votes required for approving OOXLM ISO standardization. This will mean a huge slowdown to the standardization to the OOXML format.

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