• Why is email authentication changing?

    ON SECURITY

    Susan Bradley

    By Susan Bradley

    Throughout the lifetime of Internet-based email, we’ve been told over and over that it was dying, or soon to be dead.

    Then why are we still on a dead platform? Why aren’t we using some new, whiz-bang thing that was touted as so much better than email? There have been some proposed ideas, but they died off.

    I have a rather simple theory: Email comes to you — you don’t have to go find it. And it’s ubiquitous, too. No matter what device you’re using, what vendor it comes from, or what operating system it runs, email works.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.22.0, 2022-05-30).