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A noticeable uptick in phishing mail coming from Google's mail servers. Trying to report them has turned out to be fruitless. If anyone know where to best send reports so that the Google geniuses take a look and action, please do tell me!

If you rely on the Client Auth EKU, you will have to find a different Certificate Authority (CA) than Letsencrypt. Or run your own CA, which is certainly possible but adds another attack layer. Oh, by the way, this change is described as being *better* for security, which I find a bit of a confusing justification. Le sigh.

Today is the last day that #Letsencrypt will issue certificates with the "Client Authentication" EKU (Extended Key Usage). If that sounds like obscure technobabble, you are mostly right. But it might cause some breakage in unexpected places where servers talk to each other (e-mail server, XMPP servers, mTLS (mutual Transport Layer Security) setups). Here's information for XMPP: https://blog.prosody.im/2026-letsencrypt-changes/

If you land at Schiphol today and leave through baggage reclaim halls 3&4 between 12:00 and 13:30, you will be undergoing a customs check. This is a so called "Stiptheidsactie", where employees follow all rules to the letter. It's kind of like a strike, meaning it is used as a method to get the employer at the negotiation table. A full strike is rather rare in the Netherlands. These actions work GoodEnough most of the time too

Schiphol customs to check all arriving passengers until 1:30 p.m. in pay protest

Customs officers at Schiphol Airport will begin a so-called punctuality campaign at 12 p.m. Tuesday in baggage reclaim halls 3 and 4, checking all arriving passengers—including those who normally have nothing to declare—until 1:30 p.m., Schiphol reports. The officers say the extra inspections are a protest against a government pay freeze, aimed at showing how important their work is.

NL Times (nltimes.nl)

The good news: #Portugal votes for Center-left Seguro as president with an overwhelmingly clear 66.82% majority. Far-right candidate Ventura is the clear loser. Thank you, wonderful people of Portugal!

Eleições Presidenciais 2026 - 2º Sufrágio

Resultados dos Escrutínios Provisórios

(www.presidenciais2026.mai.gov.pt)

(And no, no need to tell me it's a shiny happy people phantasy. I know. But I still believe that thinking positive ways helps us all to look forward, not backward. It's not the 1970/80s anymore. Peace.)

The UN (United Nations) and the WTO (World Trade Organisation) should declare that owning nuclear weapons means an automatic disqualification of membership. Problem solved. Think global, not national. #SundayThought #GoodNight #SolutionsNotProblems #OnePeople