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David Feng Announcement

FYI: David Feng to “Self-Carbon Copy” All Sent Messages

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Please be informed that, with immediate effect, David Feng will be sending all messages sent from his email accounts to a dedicated email inbox — sent at davidfeng dot com. (This will either be as a CC or a BCC recipient.)

This email account is under full control of David Feng — maximum measures are being taken to ensure that both this account is safe and that any impact to your privacy, especially those which may put you at a disadvantage, is kept to a minimum.

After Cablegate, Prism, and Heartbleed, the Internet is suddenly a much less safe than initially thought. However, please rest assured that David is doing his most to ensure that your messages are safe and the mere act of “self carbon-copying” messages to David’s sent-messages email inbox will not result in any spam or undesired messages as a result of this.

The reason this account is being set up is that David moves between different machines a lot, and so far it has been very difficult to synchronise sent boxes from David’s main accounts. Also, at times, previously sent messages have to be referred to. The presence of a “sent messages inbox” will solve any problems in referring to past communications.

Please do not write directly to this “sent messages inbox” — systems are being set up to automatically mark all sent messages as “read”.

David thanks you for your understanding, apologises in advance if this should cause you any inconvenience, and remains happy to hear from you via email.

David Feng Announcement

Good Bye (Let’s Hope), Spam…

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The probably most immediate result in me posting this is that I will be spammed — because the title of this post contains those sensitive four letters.

I’ve just redone my messaging system. I can’t tell you the email addresses “just like this” — because, well, those obnoxious spammers are still out there. I’d say they’ll leap into action even if I embed my address in a YouTube video. As a result, I’ve had to set up a form which submits your message via email — don’t ask me how it works, it just works!

Those reasons are probably not worth a post but here’s what’s worth the post: I will be using a separate email address for most of my online accounts (except for the ones I use the most — again, nothing in open to deter the spammers). The thing is — if I respond from a different account and tell you this is my “main” / “real” account, you should use that instead.

In a previous era, my SNS account messages were in the same inbox as my other messages, and most crucially — I gave my email address “away”, which kind of aggravated the whole thing. These days, all my devices are now set up to use these new addresses. It might be a few years before my inbox gets flooded with spam again. But at least now, I’ll be more responsive online…

David Feng Announcement

It’s Easier Now to Email Me

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I’ve just put the finishing touches on a brand-new form (which gets sent by email) which you can use to email me. It’s on my new HTTPS secure server, dfsecured.com.

However, with this recent “Snowden / leak / mess” thing, I can no longer say a creepy government will never find out about our emails. Still, security is pretty decent at the new dfsecured.com site. Let’s put it this way: If you trust folks with your credit card number, the degree of security at dfsecured.com is much the same. Update: HTTPS / SSL remains “on/off” for the moment… not a good idea to send over credit card numbers… but hey, this was never an e-commerce site, right?…

If a determined “bad guy” is — like I said — determined to find out that we’ve been emailing about, say, the Beijing Subway, well, there’s nothing I can do about that. But most of our conversations, I’m sure, will be less “sensitive”. ;-) Me donning on the new HTTPS service is just another way for David Feng to say: I value our conversation, and I like it as private and as safe for you as I can.

I also have a totally new email address, but because this is the creepy-crawly Internet, where spam crazies are all over the place, it’d be a little “e-suicidal” revealing it here. Not to worry, though: as long as you use the new Web email form to contact me, it will go straight to my new mailbox.

These were some tough late-night tweaks at 02:30 (AM!), but heck, when you come to test drive the whole new thing, you’ll feel it was worth it. :-)