Written by Zealus on November 12, 2007 – 12:05 pm -
CNET runs an interesting story about analyzing the source of the e-mail message in order to determine how legit it is. Similar things have been popping up here and there for a while now, but it’s good that mainstream started to pick up on consciousness of the simple process of reading e-mail.
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