Huddled Masses » Certificate http://huddledmasses.org You can do more than breathe for free... Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:42:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Be a responsible geek – encrypt your email (free) http://huddledmasses.org/be-a-responsible-geek-encrypt-your-email-free/ http://huddledmasses.org/be-a-responsible-geek-encrypt-your-email-free/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:45:24 +0000 Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett http://HuddledMasses.org/?p=695 Everyone should encrypt their emails … especially geeks, who can be expected to understand how little effort it would take for a rogue sysadmin or clever hacker to sniff your email on it’s way to it’s intended destination.

Incidentally, if you’re a geek and you don’t know that, you should try running WireShark while you download and send emails…

Anyway. The point of this email is to point out that Comodo (one of the biggest SSL Certificate vendors, and one who’s trust certificates are pre-installed on Windows) is giving away free secure email certificates which you can use in Outlook, Thunderbird, or whatever your favorite email client is. They’re actually on the recommendation list from Microsoft, but inexplicably listed under “other” office versions (they work fine in Outlook 2007, just to be clear).

All you need to do now is run off and sign up and then tell all your friends and family to do the same thing.

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