I attended a presentation on the Chinese-run Myanmar scamming complexes a while back, so reading this NYT article taking a closer look at them was interesting. I feel so bad for the victims of trafficking and job scams who end up working in these places.

Gotta get through the "data privacy training" for work. It referenced a study done by IBM in 2020 that said 80% of businesses said their customers' personal information had been compromised. And I mean, that's just the ones that owned up to it!

Phishing & cyber-enabled fraud are exacting a heavy toll. How can we shift our efforts upstream? A new report from World Economic Forum & Institue for Science and Technology calls for embedding user safety by default #CyberCivilDefense #Take9 Learn more: www.weforum.org/publications...

A coworker brought up LinkedIn Learning; my only recent referent for that has been some Facebook ads telling me I might be entitled to financial compensation if I'd used it. Just looked up what that's about: www.courthousenews.com/judge-advanc...

I read a book called IBM and the Holocaust and let me tell you, this goes nowhere good. Nazis used innocently-collected census data long after the fact to find people, and we are long past "it can't happen here." Census data privacy IS ESSENTIAL TO OUR SAFETY.

Registered with a city platform to put a comment on upcoming council motion and the email went to my spam folder due to a DMARC failure, so now I'm emailing a bunch of people at the city to get them to make their vendor fix it. Email geek civic busybody mode: engage!

Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

Really excellent piece on the GOP attempting to intimidate Google over putting messages in the spam folder even though those messages give off significant signals that indicate they are unsolicited. It is not partisan to use functional spam filtering.

!! Email PSA !! Got an old Yahoo account you want but ignore? They just reduced the amount of free storage you get, so if you don't pay or delete stuff, your email might be bouncing as of 8/27/25. This is your call to login and make sure everything still works.

DMARC is a goal and then a maintenance practice. Orgs need to be prepared to maintain DMARC compliance as part of their regular audit and security. You wouldn't let all your former employees keep active logins and keys to the office, right?? So don't continue authorizing old vendors, either!

I’ve decided to “open the doors” to my AI law and policy class this fall. Why? Because we need an easy way for people to level up on an area that impacts all of our lives. How do you join? Easy, just subscribe. Then you're in! Share this widely! substack.com/@nitafarahan...

Cybercriminals gave Brian Krebs some pretty amazing lines in this criminal complaint. "“Krebs is not the one you want to have on your back. Not because he is scary or something, just because he will not give up UNTIL you are [expletive] [expletive]." Awesome. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/oreg...

One of the reasons I love email and have made it the center of my career is that it is so flexible and extensible and, yes, irrepressible.

The #DMARC spec is getting an update. The IETF is proposing changes—DMARCbis—to improve clarity, flexibility, and ease of deployment. Get the breakdown of what's changing and learn how you can prepare: dmarcian.com/dmarcbis-vs-... #DMARCbis #DKIM #EmailAuthentication

Recently saw an amazing presentation from StopScamsAlliance.org. I loosely follow the anti-scam protections world, but even I was surprised by some of what I learned, particularly the degree to which scams are funding foreign adversaries (and I don't say that lightly).

Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?

Recognizing the risks tariffs pose, some brands are using their marketing programs to position themselves with their customers to try to minimize the impact on their customer relationships—with more messaging to come in the months ahead. www.cmswire.com/digital-mark... #digitalmarketing

Somebody needs to get M3AAWG over to Bluesky.

Going to be attending a work conference in Canada soon, flying nonstop from the US... so tell me, why did United Airlines just email me about RealID? These flights require a passport, RealID is not going to do anything for me.

The uncomfortable confusion of loading a website that has switched to light mode without permission

BREAKING: The price of Barbies in the United States are rising fast. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/b...

The best things about my occasional forays into the office: 1. seeing a few of my favorite coworkers 2. nice chance to walk around the city for a bit with my headphones on 3. that spooky liminal feeling of a deserted office after almost everyone's gone for the day.

First time I've heard of whiskey as an investment scam, but sadly will probably not be the last. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thank you @npr.org for including me on ATC to talk about the Privacy Act of 1974 @uvalaw.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/03/12/n...

A brief moment to mention how much I love Zoom's voiceprint audio isolation. I can leave my white noise system running when I'm on a call and no one but me hears it because of this great feature. support.zoom.com/hc/en/articl...

Was talking with a coworker about slow data, and mentioned that time someone implemented TCP/IP over carrier pigeons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over...

Oh. Good. That won’t be a problem.

Facepalm.

Read the brilliant @daniellecitron.bsky.social on DOGE access to Treasury systems www.lawfaremedia.org/article/doge...

What's happening to US politics is enraging, treasonous, and criminal in general, and particularly so in terms of how technology is being used to harm the country. There is NO excuse for this.

Welcome to my new work-focused Bluesky account! I probably won't post here a whole lot, but I spend all my weekdays talking about deliverability and thinking about email, so I'll share a little of that here. Looking forward to connecting with fellow #emailgeeks.