Those ever so nice guys at Google have allowed GAFYD customers (yes the free ones included) to authenticate email with a domain key.
“Spammers can forge the ‘From’ address on mail messages so that the spam appears to come from your domain. To help prevent this, you can add a digital signature to the header of all email actually sent from your domain. Learn more”
It’s dirt easy to do if you have already added your private domain to GAFYD and allows people to verify if you actually sent them that nasty spam message (which of course you most likely didn’t… did you!?)
Get your Domain key Authentication ON!
Got a Yubikey?.. Got a WordPress blog?
Then you need to read this… that is all, thanks !
Do you feel insecure about your current password solution? I did, so I got this Yubikey.
I was going to make a lovely write up and explain this new fangled device for you, but this is the internet and why rewrite?
From Wikipedia;
“The YubiKey, manufactured by Yubico, is a device that acts as a USB keyboard and provides secure authentication by a one-time password that is encrypted using the AES encryption algorithm with a 128-bit key.”
here’s some useful links to explain and get you going
http://www.yubico.com/yubikey
http://christiaanconover.com/yubikeyreview
http://christiaanconover.com/yubikeyconfig
Get one (or 2) and go explore the interwebs with a warm secure feeling in your socks!
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