I am sending you this invitation to combat spam, because it pisses me off and this is an extention for firefox or Thunderbird Email client that will authenticate/detect spam and phish attacks. This will help protect your privacy online and make sure you do not accidently click on an email that will compromise your computer.
You dont have to sign up for anything, u can just use the extention for firefox, u can grab that here http://www.messagelevel.com/firefox/ defcon How Does Message Level Work? Message Level is a patent pending email authentication technology that creates query-able unique identifiers for each outbound email (a.k.a. headers, signatures, tokens or stamps) and utilizes an automated query-back to the "purported sender" or received email in order to determine whether the email is in fact authentic. The latter occurs automatically and requires no end-user actions, responses or interpretations. Although any unique identifier can be used, Message Level creates ID's from unique elements of the outgoing messages themselves, which makes it impossible to phish or attack a sending system as messages are only query-able back against the authentic sending system, authorized third party or central processor. Thereby enabling Sending Systems to assume full control of email purported to be coming from them to recipient systems (e.g. Phishing email), which creates the ability to detect fraudulent activity as it is actually occurring and deny delivery of fraudulent messages with no false positives or the associated liability with incorrect delivery denial. By virtue of this query-back to the Sending System, Message Level also creates the real-time ability to track and certify delivery of messages sent to end-users - even to the last mile of delivery to end-user desktops. Moreover, as malicious viruses, trojans and security threats will inevitably attempt to mislead users at the desktop level via middle-man and replay attacks, Message Level is the only authentication methodology that can be implemented securely at the desktop level because it is the only authentication methodology that places the Sender in complete control over the authentication transaction. As such, Message Level creates a distributed environment that enables Sending Systems to become their own Authentication and Reporting Authorities. Thereby providing the foundation necessary for Corporate Enterprises to conduct business critical communications electronically via Commercial Grade Email. Benefits of placing the Sender in Control over the Authentication Transaction: * Enables Security & Authentication Changes without affecting Deliverability. * Eliminates False Positives and the Liability associated with incorrect Delivery Denials. * Provides real-time Transactional Control and Visibility to Sending Systems. * Detects and Prevents Middle-Man and Replay Attacks. * Real-time Phishing Detection, Prevention and Alert Systems. * Real-time Forensic Data Collection and Evidentiary Archives. * Real-time Certified Delivery and Message Tracking. * Can Secure as far as the Last Mile of Delivery to End-User Desktops. Placing the Sender in Control Although the need for Email Authentication is clear, it continues to evolve in many directions and proposed solutions continue to introduce larger problems. As additional layers of complexity are introduced, new layers are needed to control and report on the system. We initially saw PKI measures introduced to authenticate email messages because of their ability to be cached on the recipient system. However, due to the fact that they are susceptible to Replay Attacks and their inability to enable real-time security changes without affecting the delivery of messages, we are now seeing PKI email authentication shifting to network queries for each message that is received. For example, if an enterprise decides to revoke their PKI key because of Replay attacks or schedule security changes, how does a recipient system know for any given message whether or not it has the most up-to-date key cached within it's system for comparison purposes? As such, it will have to perform a key query for each message received in order to be assured that it has the most up-to-date key; otherwise it risks denying delivery of legitimate messages and/or allowing replayed fraudulent messages to be delivered. Moreover, due to the fact that false-positives continue to rise because of recipient-based interpretation, we are also seeing the introduction of "deliverability analysis" services, feedback loops and forensic "honey-pot" services to enable enterprises "to see" and gain visibility over what is happening to their messages. However, even with the introduction of the latter services in order to provide "real-time" data to an enterprises, network reports and queries are required at the point of delivery of every email received. Since so many network queries and calls are being proposed for services that attempt to give the Sending System a measure of control and visibility over what is occurring, the basic question becomes: "How many additional layers of complexity are going to continue to be introduced, and result in increased false positive rates, before we simply give back transactional control to the enterprise itself?" Stop-gap measures will continue to be introduced to make up for the fact that the Sender is simply not in control over it's own transactions. Historically we have seen this same process repeated from Credit Card transactions that switched from holograms to queries directly back to the bank, to software licensing which switched from encrypted keys to queries back to the vendor itself and we will see it with email authentication as well. In essence, we will see the Enterprise switch from a model in which it needs multiple vendors performing middle-man functions to one in which the Enterprise becomes it's own Authentication Authority. Thereby giving the Enterprise complete control, security and visibility over its own transactions. -- Gutsy Gibbon 2.6.22-9-generic Kernel Panic when inserting belkins F5D7050 USB wifi card/rt73 driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130078 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
