Email pioneer says breakthrough was too much trouble
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'If I'd known I'd never have written that piece of code' The man who invented the internet's most popular email routing system says he would never have done it had he known how much trouble it was going to be.â¦
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It's trouble, but we love it anyway Reg Guide Email is no longer an option in the business environment. Like many technologies that have grown by individual demand rather than organisational imposition, email crept up on corporations by stealth, becoming an essential tool before anyone cared to notice.â¦
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Anyone who has seen the Mission: Impossible TV shows or movies will remember the ominous âthis message will self-destructâ bit that began each installment. Now, a company is promising to bring that kind of high-tech service to e-mail.
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K. Ananth Krishnan has a hard enough job handling the technology requirements of a global IT consulting behemoth with 89,000 globally dispersed employees and 34 to 35 percent annual growth. But as an avid follower of Clayton Christensen, author of the classic business book "The Innovatorâs Dilemma," he would never be content to merely stay on top of things. Innovation is part of his regular diet.
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Tzvetan Ceco Chaliavski's workday begins just like most people's, with a check of his e-mail. But his inbox often contains more than 400 warnings and samples of viruses, worms and all manner of malware.
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A row over intellectual property claims from Microsoft Corp. has dealt a fatal blow to an ambitious effort by Internet engineers to create a technical standard for curbing junk e-mail.
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By Karen J. Bannan About a year ago, Scott Madlener, a marketing executive, e- mailed a client several times but his messages were not getting through.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer provided some perspective for anyone who thinks they are getting too much spam. &quot;There are two people who probably are the number one spam recipients in the world.
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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo
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When you get frustrated with an avalanche of spams sent to your email box, spare a thought for Bill Gates. The Microsoft Corp. chairman is the world&#39;s most spammed person with
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GMail changed many things for me. I started using webmail again. Redirected most of my pop mail ids to GMail for easy accessibility from any computer.
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For consumers and businesses increasingly shaken by the growing onslaught of unwanted e-mail and computer viruses, any hope for quick relief was dashed Wednesday during a government-hosted gathering of technology experts. -The Washington Post
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(InfoWorld) - Whitfield Diffie has been credited with making privacy possible in the digital age. As a co-inventor of public key cryptography, he is one of the most respected contributors to the field of computer security and is in constant demand as a speaker. In his day job as Sun Microsystemsâ chief security officer, he works out of a corner office in the Sun Labs, just down the hall from where scientists are working on Sunâs next-generation Proximity Communication processors, which seek to do away with wire connections. Although he describes his job as a âmarketingâ position, Diffie didnât sound anything like a corporate pitch man when he spoke with IDG News Service reporter Robert McMillan at his Menlo Park, California office recently. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation. InfoWorld: When the PC went on the network, there were security implications that nobody thought about. Microsoft has spent the last five years fixing all of the security problems that maybe could have been foreseen.                                                     Whit Diffie: Wait a minute. I think there are two issues. I think youâll find that lots of them were foreseen. I think the critical thing [is] that Microsoft showed that its judgment was correct. If it had paid less attention to security, maybe it would have had less market share. It had no real motivation, I think, until the last few years to try to fix these things. The interesting thing to me is why itâs been so hard for them to do so, because they must have half the smart people I know about in the industry, and in security, working for them. And I think it has to do with the problems of legacy code, and the legacy interface expectations of their customers. IW: Nowadays we donât hear about widespread security outbreaks, but thereâs a sense that many of the things we do on the Internet are not trustworthy. People going to Web pages do not have confidence that they are where they think they are. WD: I think thatâs a well-placed misconfidence. IW: So, are things getting better? WD: I certainly donât worry about the security arrangements of going to Americanexpress.com, where I probably make the single largest most routine money transfer that I initiate. Iâm not the least bit worried about that, partly because of the law, and partly because the essential point of SSL [Secure Sockets Layer â a standard used in secure Web connections] is not about the quality of the cryptography but about the fact that the certificate costs enough money that the thieves arenât putting up a front. IW: I think that ties into an interesting point you made earlier: This lack of security is a fair price to pay for growth. WD: Look at Microsoft. It has 99 percent penetration in the Chinese market and 1 percent payment in the Chinese market. The business asset to them of being able to claim that they were ripped off at the same time that they gained this market of one billion people is fantastic. IW: What are your current thoughts on privacy? WD: I believe in privacy, but privacy is just one of a number of considerations. Privacy of political conversation is essential for a democratic society. Is the privacy of information about yourself necessary for it? Thatâs not very clear. Itâs a very squishy concept. In small communities, you have very little privacy, but you have accountability because you know who the members of the community are. What bothers me is that information about people is so readily available in a way not auditable to them, to organizations like ChoicePoint, who broker it around and enable other people, who are not legally constrained in what they do with it, to make decisions based on it. I am, on balance, more pleased with the fact that I can learn lots of information about people in minutes by using the Web than I am concerned about the fact that people can learn lots of information about me that way. And I would not like to see laws that restrict peopleâs ability to go investigate things. Hereâs my scenario: For all its current faults, it wonât be 10 years before facial recognition gets incredibly good. So everybodyâs camera will be saying "hi" to the people who go by. Would I like to see that outlawed? I think what outlawing it would be saying [are] that certain classes of big boys â the Fortune 1,000, the secret police â would be allowed to have access to such information, but you little irresponsible children wonât be. So I have a cowboy viewpoint on this.
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The sign-off of an e-mail message can be a land mine involving the subtleties of relationships and hierarchies.
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E-mail users inundated with  unsolicited "spam" messages have reason to hope Microsoft Corp.  will develop better tools for tackling the problem: Bill Gates  is suffering more than anyone.
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Let me explain why I think mobile email is a long way from being a commodity.
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The number of &quot;inappropriate&quot; email attachments sent to businesses has fallen but the reason for this isn&#39;t immediately apparent, email security vendor MessageLabs says in a media release.