Aug 23
A little Friday advice: if you work for one of the great mammoths in the history of technology, and your faltering CEO just emailed to say he’s departing
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Aug 22
Lavabit founder chafes under NSA scrutiny, speaks out against govermental privacy violations
Posted in: Today's Chili
Lavabit shut down its email services a couple weeks ago in response to governmental pressure regarding NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s account. At the time, founder Ladar Levison stated he was shutting down Lavabit because he didn’t want to “become complicit in crimes against the American people,” but didn’t expound upon what that statement meant due to a governmental gag order. The Guardian spoke with Levison recently, however, and while he still didn’t deliver details about his legal dealings with Uncle Sam, he did share some thoughts about governmental surveillance in general.
As you might expect, Levison is against ubiquitous governmental surveillance of communications between citizens. To that end, he’s calling for a change to be made in US law so that private and secure communications services can operate without being used as “listening posts for an American surveillance network.” He’s not wholly against the feds tapping phone lines, though, as he recognizes the role such surveillance plays in law enforcement. However, he thinks the methods that are being used to conduct that surveillance should be made public — not an unreasonable request, by any means. You can read Levison’s full take on the matter, along with a recounting of reasons behind Lavabit’s creation at the source below.
Source: The Guardian
Aug 21
If you couldn’t get your first choice @Outlook email address
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Aug 20
The digital carnage continues as yet another online service shuts down rather than face NSA scrutiny. Fearing for its email security, the legal site Groklaw shut its doors on Tuesday
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Aug 19
In April, Microsoft made a preview of Skype in Outlook.com available for users located in the UK, with those in the US and Germany getting their own previews a handful of weeks later. It has been a few months, but the feature is now rolling out in full to users located across the globe, bringing […]
Aug 19
Americans waiting for the Skype for Outlook.com preview can stop twiddling their thumbs — the test release is now available in the US, complementing existing access in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and the UK. As in other countries, stateside users with merged Outlook.com and Skype accounts just have to install a plugin for Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer to make calls while checking email. Those in other regions will have to sit tight, however; Microsoft only promises worldwide access to Skype for Outlook.com sometime in the “near future.”
Filed under: Internet, Microsoft
Source: Outlook Blog
Aug 18
It may have taken three days, but Microsoft has officially resolved its Outlook.com outage — and it has both explanations and long-term solutions for affected email users. Trouble began with the failure of a caching service for Exchange ActiveSync. The resulting deluge of reconnection attempts promptly overwhelmed company servers; a slow recovery was necessary to avoid another meltdown, Microsoft says. To prevent repeat incidents, the tech giant is both upgrading its network capacity and implementing a more elegant error handling system. While the fixes likely come too late for some users, they suggest that Microsoft has learned a hard lesson about the fragility of online services.
Filed under: Internet, Microsoft
Via: The Next Web
Source: Outlook Status
Aug 14
Between constant password breaches
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Aug 13
If you recall, earlier this month the encrypted email service Lavabit abruptly shutdown, killing the service for over 400,000 users in one swoop. Following that, another encrypted email service run by Silent Circle was preemptively shutdown. Although Ladar Levison, the creator of Lavabit, is under a gag order that prevents him from talking about the […]
Aug 13
It’s time to bid the old Gmail compose farewell, now that the service is sunsetting the antiquated interface completely. We can’t say we didn’t see it coming when pop-up compose became the default option, but we’ll bet that doesn’t make things easier for those who’ve been dreading this moment. If you’ve been holding on to the old ways, expect your account to make the switch in the next few days as the permanent change rolls out. There’s really nothing you can do about it short of abandoning Gmail, but at least you can expand that teensy window whenever you need a bigger space to work with. As for those who’ve been using the new compose from the very beginning: carry on, Google’s non-wayward sons.
Filed under: Internet
Source: Gmail (Google+)
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