Overheard today on the Internet (from a law professor):
The “e” in email stands for for evidence.
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Is BlackBerry Giving in to India?
While some people seem to believe it is happening (TechCrunch is reporting they are), it appears to not be the case, according to the Times of India.
While I can understand BlackBerry’s concern of an outright ban if they don’t “play ball”, I can only imagine the uproar if millions of CrackBerry addicts were suddenly deprived of their email all at once. Perhaps positive social change could result.
Posted in Miscellaneous
The Value of Endpoint-to-Endpoint Encryption
I find this article discussing India’s federal communications ministry’s suggestion that every email sent through BlackBerry’s Enterprise Servers should be copied to government monitoring systems to be quite disturbing. I realize it may be my American-centric view of the world, but the government really doesn’t belong in our day-to-day communications (and, yes, I’m talking to you, too, NSA).
Endpoint-to-endpoint encryption secures your communications from the time they leave your device to the time it is received on another device, regardless of where it goes in the middle. This means your messages stay secure, whether it is from an overly curious internet security provider or a fully malevolent corporate spy.
Posted in Miscellaneous
Paramount Loses a Message
Apparently, Paramount Studios has lost an email. According to an article at The Wrap, an email that identifies Paramount’s current film development efforts was leaked.
While it may not seem like much, that is actually a really big deal. If I’m at a rival studio and see that Paramount is releasing something like what I’m working on, I’m going to make sure mine gets done first so I get the excitement and, consequently, the majority of the money. Given the budgets on some of the files ($125M budget for License to Steal), that has the potential to be costly, indeed.
Paramount is saying that it isn’t an official Paramount message, and that it isn’t completely accurate. That, of course, implies that it is at least somewhat accurate.
Personally, I’m excited for a new Jack Ryan movie, but I’m not sure if Chris Pine is the right guy for it. He seems a little too cocky. On the other hand, I’m very happy to see work on Zoolander 2.
Posted in Fun Stuff
Introducing the ClickLock Blog
Email. We spend a lot of time thinking about it here. To say that we think it is awesome would just be weird, but we do think it is amazingly important. For those of you who are old like me, think back to what life was like before email. When you needed to tell somebody something, you have two choices: talk to them or send them a letter. Just thinking about those dark days makes me shudder.
Unfortunately, email isn’t all good. There are some pretty big problems with it, in fact. Whether it is a deposed Nigerian prince offering you his millions (just please send him $4000 first), somebody scanning your messages as they cruise across the Internet, or a message showing up that really looks like it is from your bank phishing for your account information, email can be a dangerous place
All of the good stuff we love about email is getting harder to do because of that bad stuff. Our goal at ClickLock is to fix that. We can’t make the bad stuff go away, but we can help you identify what is good and make sure your important information stays safe, both while it is traveling across the internet and while it is sitting on a server somewhere in cyberspace.
This blog is all about giving you the tools and information you need to keep all of your messages safe, whether they are email, Facebook, or something else altogether. More importantly, it is about keeping you (and your identity) safe! ClickLock will undoubtably be mentioned (we do think it is a pretty good solution to many of these problems, after all), but this blog is not about our product.
People should be able to communicate safely and securely. We are here to help you do that.
Posted in Announcements, Miscellaneous