October 2004
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DomainKeys Versus the Spam Kingdom
As slashdot reported yesterday, Gmail has begun signing all its outgoing mail using Yahoo!’s DomainKeys. The system works like a very complicated wax seal. Imagine that I told everyone that I’d never send a letter without melting my seal onto it, and imagine that it’s impossible to duplicate my seal and only I have access to it. If you got a letter from me bearing my seal, you’d know I that it was...
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iDisk Auto-Mounting Trouble
Whenever I log into my iMac, two versions of my iDisk mount. One is the default iDisk that comes up if you have a .mac account and is just called “iDisk.” The other is named the same as my username and mounts every time I log in. I’m canceling my .mac account in a few days, so I’ve taken the account off my machine, but the second iDisk continues to mount. Anyone know why?
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Watching the vice presidential debates last night, it occurred to me that a big problem with the whole format is that we have no way to know if either person is lying or not. If Vice President Cheney says he’s created x jobs this year, how do we know he actually has? If he says that he never suggested a connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda, how do we know if he actually did?
Simple: pop-up...