Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an email authentication method used for detecting forged sender addresses in emails. Essentially, it’s part of the security toolkit used to counter forged visible email addresses, or email spoofing, which is one way how spammers and phishers try to trick you. Reading up on it, I decided to check how many high-profile business law firms in Finland currently use SPF for their email domains. Turns out, many don’t. You can read about that further below.
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Customizing Finlex
This bad boy can fit so much jQuery in it
Finlex, a public online database of legislative and judicial information in Finland, is an invaluable resource to lawyers and laypersons alike. While there are commercial alternatives out there with more features, such as Edilex, I myself prefer the calm and soothing user interface of Finlex. Which made me wonder if there was a way to bring in at least some of those commercial features into the Finlex experience. What I was able to come up with was a Chrome extension enabling you to tweak certain UI features of Finlex. I named it Finlex Ex and you can install it from here to play around with. The source code is available on GitHub.
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