To smiley face or not: the complexity of email etiquette
As a part of human interaction, emails are as nuanced and complex as the social world we find them, and it is unlikely that we can rely on a checklist of quick-fix rules.
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Email isn’t dead – and it’s helping to keep newspapers alive
Daily newsletters are winning media organisations new readers.
‘Spearphishing’ roiled the presidential campaign – here’s how to protect yourself
Despite years of public information efforts, even simple cyberattacks still succeed. Here are five steps to avoiding having your emails appear on WikiLeaks.
Q&A with Yale scholar: How the FBI has meddled in politics before
A historian and biographer of J. Edgar Hoover answers questions on how FBI director James Comey is handling a position with a dark past.
Restoring transparency and fairness to the FBI investigation of Clinton emails
Huma Abedin's emails belong to her; the search warrant should be served upon her. Once that happens, she can challenge the warrant's legality.
In getting ‘new’ Clinton emails, did the FBI violate the Constitution?
The FBI has a history of abusing search warrants to illegally read Americans' emails. Did the agency just do it again, in the highest of all high-profile situations?
Feds: We can read all your email, and you’ll never know
We don't expect our own government to hack our email – but it's happening, in secret, and if current court cases go badly, we may never know how often.
How did classified information get into those Hillary Clinton emails?
An academic who used to hold top secret security clearance explains how things get classified and why the Clinton email scandal is hard to nail down.
From dating profiles to Brexit – how to spot an online lie
Fibbers beware: experts have developed a new digital lie detector.
Not dead yet: how email has survived and continues to thrive
Email has been around for many decades and its death has been predicted many times. Love it or hate it, we still need it for communication at work and in our private lives.
Wikileaks email dump exposes dark machinations of security firm Stratfor
WikiLeaks has begun publishing five million emails from the US-based security firm Stratfor that allegedly expose its “web…
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