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Are you the sort of person who needs to read and file every email they get Or do you delight in seeing an email client icon proudly warning of hundreds or even thousands of unread items For some, keeping one's email inbox with no unread items is more than just a good idea: it's a way of life, indicating control over the 21st century and its notion of productivity. For others, it's a manifestation of an obsessively compulsive mind. The two camps, and the mindsets behind them, have been a frequent topic of conversation here in the Ars Orbiting HQ. And rather than just argue with each other on Slack, we decided to collate our thoughts about the whole "inbox zero" idea and how, for those who adhere to it, that happens.
Jonathan Gitlin
Back when I had an office job and writing for Ars was a side gig, I was all about inbox zero. We used Exchange in my day job, and I was all about categorizing emails, sorting them into folders, and ruthlessly deleting unwanted messages each day. Some of this might have been brought on by the fact that, by default, we were only given a meagre 250MB storage on the server; learning how to make local archives and backups became a necessity, and in the process you learned to separate the wheat from the chaff. Another factor was probably the nature of my job; as anyone who sits through several hours of meetings a day surely knows, staying on top of one's email becomes a welcome diversion during the many boring bits.
But in the last few years, that all changed, and the real reason was webmail. At first, it was just with my personal email accounts, but the trend accelerated in early 2017 when Ars migrated from Exchange to Gmail. Now, like my personal accounts, I was accessing it via Inbox. This does some things well but, like all webmail interfaces (to me at least), isn't nearly as conducive to a good bit of spring cleaning as an actual desktop application. Automatically bundling emails into groups—Promos, Updates, and so on—kept them out of my way, so in addition to never being read they never got deleted. Before long this all built up; at the time of writing, my personal Gmail account tells me it has 2,661 unread messages. (If you really want a fright, iCloud shows 6,261 unread items!)
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AT-T has told employees that hiring President Trump's personal lawyer was a "big mistake." AT-T is also reportedly forcing its chief lobbyist to retire.
"Our company has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons these last few days and our reputation has been damaged," AT-T CEO Randall Stephenson told employees in an internal memo Friday. "There is no other way to say it—AT-T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake."
The memo was published by The Washington Post.The memo said that chief lobbyist Bob Quinn is retiring, "but a person familiar with the matter said Mr. Quinn was being forced to leave," according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Enlarge / On the left, a legitimate Chrome extension. On the right, one of seven recently discovered malicious Chrome extensions impersonating it. (credit: Radware)
Criminals infected more than 100,000 computers with browser extensions that stole login credentials, surreptitiously mined cryptocurrencies, and engaged in click fraud. The malicious extensions were hosted in Googleofficial Chrome Web Store.
The scam was active since at least March with seven malicious extensions known so far, researchers with security firm Radware reported Thursday. Google's security team removed five of the extensions on its own and removed two more after Radware reported them. In all, the malicious add-ons infected more than 100,000 users, at least one of which was inside a "well-protected network" of an unnamed global manufacturing firm, Radware said.
Secure browser, weak link
Over the past eight months, malicious Chrome extensions have proved to be an Achilles' heel for the Internet's most widely used and arguably most secure browser. Last August, lax rules for securing extension-developer accounts led to the compromise of two extensions installed on millions of computers. In two separate incidents in January, researchers found at least five malicious extensions installed more than 500,000 times. Two weeks ago, Trend Micro documented the return of FacexWorm, a malicious extension that was first spotted seven months earlier.
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Enlarge / Michael Cohen, longtime personal lawyer and confidant for President Donald Trump, arrives at the United States District Court Southern District of New York on April 26, 2018 in New York City. (credit: Getty Images | Spencer Platt )
Congressional Democrats are asking US regulators for information on whether AT-T payments to President Trump's personal lawyer were made in order to influence the government's review of AT-T's merger with Time Warner Inc.
AT-T paid $600,000 to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's shell company, Essential Consultants, "the same vehicle he used in October 2016 to direct $130,000 to the adult-film actress known professionally as Stormy Daniels to stay silent about an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump in 2006," The Wall Street Journal wrote yesterday.
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) yesterday asked the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division for answers.
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