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The only safe email is text-only email

  • Written by Sergey Bratus, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College
imageFor safety, look to text-only messaging.The Conversation, via picascii.com, publicdomainpictures.net and kelvinsong, CC BY-ND

It’s troubling to think that at any moment you might open an email that looks like it comes from your employer, a relative or your bank, only to fall for a phishingscam. Any one of the endless stream of...

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