Their privacy policy makes it clear they won't send advertisements to you or sell your information. They also specifically state that they won't send any unsolicited email and I couldn't find any mention that signing up constitutes you accepting advertising emails from them.
This one is a bit dodgy. They specifically state clearly that by signing up, that you will recieve email from them, from advertisors. Signing up means, that you are soliciting these emails according to them. At least they're being honest about it.
Any more?
I personally would stick with Yahoo, since I've been using that address for so long and I think $20-$30/year isn't too bad. There are no gurantees that these other 2 services won't charge you either in future.
I'd have to agree with you as well. It's great as a personal account and I don't get much spam, unless as the other poster said you post that address on Usenet.
The pop service was really useful, because I could check it with my Visor, download all the emails on my home PC (to clear out the online mail box) and be able to access my personal emails when I'm on holidays at some internet cafe or airport.
Being able to access the web part is also important here in Malaysia as we have unreliable ISP's, so I trust my Yahoo mailbox better than my ISP's mailbox.
Store them in a PDA that encrypts and organizes your passwords. A nice product that I use for my Visor (or any PalmOS based PDA) is SplashID. It can have a numeric keypad (for numeric only passwords) to enable you to quickly tap in a PIN to access all your passwords.
Since I carry my PDA with me at all times, somebody has to pry/steal it off me first before they can get my passwords (they have to crack the my passphrase also). At least you have another level of security (compared to a piece of paper) and you're less likely to lose your PDA. The other benefit is that on a PDA, it's easy to organize and search from hundreds of different passwords.
The downside to this is that having all your eggs in one basket. If your PDA is stolen, if somebody can does brute force methods to get your password, all your passwords will be compromised.
That being said, if you have a backup and your PDA does get stolen and you are worried, you could restore your back up to another PDA and quickly change all the passwords before that person has a chance to log in to any compromised accounts.
There is a lot ways it can be abused. The questions you should be asking are..
Who has WRITE access to the card? And also who decides which people have the desired devices/keys to write the information? What happens if these devices are stolen? They have brushed over this very lightly.
Readers are the least of my worries. If somebody swipes my card and changes my status to illegal resident. Since the status of the card is as official National Registry Department (NRD) document it carries the same weight as your IC and Passport. You get dragged off to jail first, before you have a chance to prove your case.
Makes you worry about giving your IC card away to be swiped by anybody.
We have had them for a while now. Right now we have personal details and currently we can also add our driver's license to it. Since all Malaysians have to carry a mandatory indentification card, it's no big deal and having your license on it is convenient too.
It also has space for future applictions such as health records, electronic cash, a prepaid travel card for selected trains, buses and highway tolls.
As for security, the government assures us that the information is stored and encrypted seperately so that there is no central backdoor (like Clipper) to different departments to get hands to track what you spend and where you are going. Considering Malaysia's human rights record, I'm rather worried about this one. Driver's license and ID card and health is ok for me, but the electronic cash and other forms of transction based functions are rather worrying in the wrong hands.
Example of stupid flash site. This page has most of the things that you could do in html, except it is done in Flash. Notice the limitations? Even when they want to submit a form (that doesn't work) they have to escape out of flash.
Flash has it's uses like advertisements and for pages where people visit once and never come back again. You know like a Coke ad. "Wow, that looks cool, it's definitely the real thing!"
It's also good for interactive animations and long animations as many have mentioned due to it's vector format (keepin size small).
Definitely not for general information and lots of text. As this site shows, you can't link, you can't cut and paste, it takes a forever (on 56k modem which a lot of people still use). You can't even cut and paste the phone numbers!
PS: And before somebody makes a smartass comment about my username;) I had to add the k at the end, because 5 years back, my hompage at uni kept on getting hits when people looked for "flash homepage". I guess the author of Flash Gordon has a better case than me.
I know it affects traffic to ISPs a lot, but as a user, the amount of spam I recieve relative to normal emails is on a ratio of about 3% or less (that's with 4 accounts all with visible addresses all over over the place).
Could it be that spammers are targetting the US from specific Asian countries?
It could be due to my ISP's diligence, but I don't get enough spam that a few filters wouldn't stop.
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Right now GUI wise, it's the easiest and nicest way to use gnupg for emails in Windows.
MyRealBox.
Their privacy policy makes it clear they won't send advertisements to you or sell your information. They also specifically state that they won't send any unsolicited email and I couldn't find any mention that signing up constitutes you accepting advertising emails from them.
HotPop.
This one is a bit dodgy. They specifically state clearly that by signing up, that you will recieve email from them, from advertisors. Signing up means, that you are soliciting these emails according to them. At least they're being honest about it.
Any more?
I personally would stick with Yahoo, since I've been using that address for so long and I think $20-$30/year isn't too bad. There are no gurantees that these other 2 services won't charge you either in future.
The pop service was really useful, because I could check it with my Visor, download all the emails on my home PC (to clear out the online mail box) and be able to access my personal emails when I'm on holidays at some internet cafe or airport.
Being able to access the web part is also important here in Malaysia as we have unreliable ISP's, so I trust my Yahoo mailbox better than my ISP's mailbox.
Since I carry my PDA with me at all times, somebody has to pry/steal it off me first before they can get my passwords (they have to crack the my passphrase also). At least you have another level of security (compared to a piece of paper) and you're less likely to lose your PDA. The other benefit is that on a PDA, it's easy to organize and search from hundreds of different passwords.
The downside to this is that having all your eggs in one basket. If your PDA is stolen, if somebody can does brute force methods to get your password, all your passwords will be compromised.
That being said, if you have a backup and your PDA does get stolen and you are worried, you could restore your back up to another PDA and quickly change all the passwords before that person has a chance to log in to any compromised accounts.
Who has WRITE access to the card? And also who decides which people have the desired devices/keys to write the information? What happens if these devices are stolen? They have brushed over this very lightly.
Readers are the least of my worries. If somebody swipes my card and changes my status to illegal resident. Since the status of the card is as official National Registry Department (NRD) document it carries the same weight as your IC and Passport. You get dragged off to jail first, before you have a chance to prove your case.
Makes you worry about giving your IC card away to be swiped by anybody.
It also has space for future applictions such as health records, electronic cash, a prepaid travel card for selected trains, buses and highway tolls.
As for security, the government assures us that the information is stored and encrypted seperately so that there is no central backdoor (like Clipper) to different departments to get hands to track what you spend and where you are going. Considering Malaysia's human rights record, I'm rather worried about this one. Driver's license and ID card and health is ok for me, but the electronic cash and other forms of transction based functions are rather worrying in the wrong hands.
Flash has it's uses like advertisements and for pages where people visit once and never come back again. You know like a Coke ad. "Wow, that looks cool, it's definitely the real thing!"
It's also good for interactive animations and long animations as many have mentioned due to it's vector format (keepin size small).
Definitely not for general information and lots of text. As this site shows, you can't link, you can't cut and paste, it takes a forever (on 56k modem which a lot of people still use). You can't even cut and paste the phone numbers!
PS: And before somebody makes a smartass comment about my username ;) I had to add the k at the end, because 5 years back, my hompage at uni kept on getting hits when people looked for "flash homepage". I guess the author of Flash Gordon has a better case than me.
I know it affects traffic to ISPs a lot, but as a user, the amount of spam I recieve relative to normal emails is on a ratio of about 3% or less (that's with 4 accounts all with visible addresses all over over the place). Could it be that spammers are targetting the US from specific Asian countries? It could be due to my ISP's diligence, but I don't get enough spam that a few filters wouldn't stop.