how-to-choose-password-7

Have good passwords

Remember: Passwords are the only lock and key tools on the internet.

Protect your password:[1]
Use more than 7 characters in your password.

User more than 7 characters in your password
Choose from these characters

` ~ ! @ # $ % ^ &amp ; * ( ) = + - _ ; :
/ ? ' " | [ ] { } <>

"/" is sometimes not accepted in password

• Memorize your password, do not write it down
• Do not share your password. Create a new account instead
• Avoid using one password for all your logins
• Don't provide your password to someone for assistance unless you verify:

They need the password
They are who they say they are

• Avoid logging in from public computers
• Change your password frequently
• Log out then close the browser by clicking on the cross x on top right corner

Tips for choosing a password:

• Avoid dictionary words
• Avoid familiar items (names, phone number, etc)
• Use a combination of letters, numbers, and special characters
• Use more characters (7+)

The above topic may seem as trivial or repetition, however understand that password is the only lock and key system.
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how-to-make-email-trustworthy-encryption-6

How to be certain that email has come from a particular person?


keywords: muttmail reader,
public key cryptography[1]

In your Gmail inbox, click on, 'Show Details'. This is what you see.

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VIII. Understanding The Need For Message Signatures The first reason for message signatures is authenticity. It is a largely unknown fact that the From: header of email can be trivially forged. A quick glance can lead you to believe that the mail was sent by someone who might not have had anything to do with the message. A signature will help you determine if the mail was really sent by who you think it was sent by. The second reason for signatures is integrity. Someone who has access to any piece of mail that is waiting for you (perhaps at your ISP) can change the message. This could affect something as simple as where you should meet someone to something as serious as which bank account you should transfer money to. A signature can tell you if the message was modified between the sender and your mail client.

This document
will explain the need for signing and how to sign messages, how to
verify signatures on mail sent to you, how to encrypt messages, and how
to decrypt messages. 
Theft of your private key by anyone means theft of your identity.  In anincreasingly digital world, your private key will soon carry as muchweight as a photo ID, and in some situations already carries more.  

========================================================================

      Everything You Need To Know To Start Using GnuPG with Mutt

========================================================================

             By Justin R. Miller 

              Revision 0.1, Released 23 September 2001

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     I. Purpose
    II. Overview
   III. Assumptions
    IV. Configuring GnuPG
     V. Protecting Your Private Key
    VI. Publicizing Your Public Key
   VII. Understanding Validity and Your Web of Trust
  VIII. Understanding The Need For Message Signatures
    IX. Understanding How Signatures Are Made
     X. Understanding How Encryption Is Done
    XI. A Practical Example of Manual Key Management
   XII. A Practical Example of Manual Signing and Verification
  XIII. A Practical Example of Manual Encryption and Decryption
   XIV. Configuring Mutt For Use With GnuPG
    XV. Trying It All Out
   XVI. Links For More Information
  XVII. Contributors
 XVIII. Feedback

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email fatigue, email bankruptcy, Flaming

Most business workers today spend from one to two hours of their
working day on email: reading, ordering, sorting, ‘re-contextualizing’
fragmented information, and writing e-mail.
The use of e-mail is increasing due to increasing levels of
globalization—labour division and outsourcing amongst other things.
E-mail can lead to some well-known problems:
email worms problem is most common today on the more popular Microsoft Windows operating system

• Loss of Context: Information in context (as in a newspaper)
  is much easier and faster to understand than unedited and sometimes
  unrelated fragments of information. Communicating in context can only
  be achieved when both parties have a full understanding of the context
  and issue in question.
  
• Antisocial Behaviorisms: Email can be a "get out of jail"
  for those who are nervous or poor articulators in face to face
  situations. This can lead to society becoming less personal with a
  greater number of people being unable to hold conversations face to
  face.
  
• Flaming
  Flaming occurs when one person sends an angry and/or antagonistic
  message. Flaming is assumed to be more common today because of the ease
  and impersonality of e-mail communications: confrontations in person or
  via telephone require direct interaction, where social norms encourage
  civility, whereas typing a message to another person is an indirect
  interaction, so civility may be forgotten. Flaming is generally looked
  down upon by internet communities as it is considered rude and
  non-productive.
  
  
• Information overload: E-mail is a push technology—the sender controls who receives the information. Convenient availability of mailing lists and use of "copy all" can lead to people receiving unwanted or irrelevant information of no use to them.
  
  
• E-mail bankruptcy
  Also known as "email fatigue", e-mail bankruptcy is when a user
  ignores a large number of e-mail messages after falling behind in
  reading and answering them. The reason for falling behind is often due
  to information overload and a general sense there is so much
  information that it is not possible to read it all. As a solution,
  people occasionally send a boilerplate message explaining that the
  email inbox is being cleared out. Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig is credited with coining this term, but he may only have popularized it.^[22]
  
  
• Inconsistency: E-mails can duplicate information. This can
  be a problem when a large team is working on documents and information
  while not in constant contact with the other members of their team.
• Spamming and computer viruses

he usefulness of e-mail is being threatened by four phenomena: e-mail bombardment, spamming, phishing, and e-mail worms.


E-mail worms use e-mail as a way of replicating themselves into vulnerable computers. Although the first e-mail worm affected UNIX computers,
the problem is most common today on the more popular Microsoft Windows operating system

• Information not secret nor anonymous
  

1. e-mail messages have to go through intermediate computers before
   reaching their destination, meaning it is relatively easy for others to
   intercept and read messages;
2. many Internet Service Providers (ISP) store copies of your e-mail
   messages on their mail servers before they are delivered. The backups
   of these can remain up to several months on their server, even if you
   delete them in your mailbox;
3. the Received: headers and other information in the e-mail can often identify the sender, preventing anonymous communication.

Despite these disadvantages, email has become the most widely used medium of communication within the business world.
Further reading

• E-mail encryption
• HTML e-mail
• Internet fax
• L-mail
• Push e-mail
  

• Anti-spam techniques (e-mail)
• Computer virus
• E-card
• E-mail art
• E-mail spam
• E-mail spoofing
• Email storm
• Information overload
• Internet humor
• Internet slang
• Netiquette
• Reply All
• Usenet quoting

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email-not-secret-therefore-4

E-mail privacy, without some security precautions, can be compromised because:

• e-mail messages are generally not encrypted;
• e-mail messages have to go through intermediate computers before
  reaching their destination, meaning it is relatively easy for others to
  intercept and read messages;
• many Internet Service Providers (ISP) store copies of your e-mail
  messages on their mail servers before they are delivered. The backups
  of these can remain up to several months on their server, even if you
  delete them in your mailbox;
• the Received: headers and other information in the e-mail can often identify the sender, preventing anonymous communication.

There are cryptography applications that can serve as a remedy to one or more of the above. For example, Virtual Private Networks or the Tor anonymity network can be used to encrypt traffic from the user machine to a safer network while GPG, PGP, or S/MIME can be used for end-to-end message encryption, and SMTP STARTTLS or SMTP over Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer can be used to encrypt communications for a single mail hop between the SMTP client and the SMTP server.

Additionally, many mail user agents do not protect logins and passwords, making them easy to intercept by an attacker. Encrypted authentication schemes such as SASL prevent this.

Finally, attached files share many of the same hazards as those found in peer-to-peer filesharing. Attached files may contain trojans or viruses.
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