spam How to guarantee your email will be categorized as spam Rob Beschizza

privacy Email tracking endemic, says study Rob Beschizza

email Nanotech scientists teach spinach how to send emails, detects bombs Thom Dunn

Business In this email scam, Iran-linked hackers pose as journalists Xeni Jardin

politics Joe Biden campaign emails a post-debate 'did I make you proud?'… hours before start time Xeni Jardin

law Techdirt settles lawsuit with the "I invented email" guy Rob Beschizza

google Gmail's automated spam-filtering is making it much harder to run an independent mail-server Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets The Intercept's top security expert reviews Helm, a standalone home email server that keeps your comms out of Big Tech's data-centers Cory Doctorow

web theory Thunderbird team vows faster, easier-to-use, more stable versions in the year to come Cory Doctorow

scams Dramatic reading of wank shame scam spam sent to Boing Boing's corporate inquiries email helpline Rob Beschizza

privacy WSJ: Yahoo plans to scan users' messages for data to sell to advertisers Séamus Bellamy

happy mutants EFF has released STARTTLS Everywhere: free tools to encrypt email between mail servers Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Computer History Museum just published the sourcecode for Eudora Cory Doctorow

security Efail: can email be saved? Cory Doctorow

bots Forward your spam to sp@mnesty.com and a bot will waste the spammer's time Rob Beschizza

trumpism EPA employees who spoke out about Trump are having their emails ransacked, and the EPA's new "monitoring" firm is linked to a GOP oppo research firm Cory Doctorow

surveillance Your inbox is full of spyware-riddled emails that are both potentially very harmful to you and also very easy to disable Cory Doctorow

security Ransomware crook's email provider shuts down account, so now no one can pay their ransom Cory Doctorow

security London cops use an insecure mail-server that lets third parties intercept mail in transit Cory Doctorow

drugs Here's what happens when you email your teacher right after wisdom teeth surgery Caroline Siede