1 Malaysia email users must sign up with USB device, NRD offices
April 26, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 Those signing up for the controversial 1 Malaysia email service will have to sign up by buying a USB-biometric device sold by Tricubes Berhad or go to any National Registration Department office to get their myemail.my account activated, the company said today.Tricubes chief executive officer Khairun Zainal Mokhtar said users get a basic account for free but will have to pay if they want their mails to be more secure with encryption.Our default setting is a basic Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) which is quite secure, he told reporters here.Even with the friendly emails, and without the billing, everything is through SSL. Users can also send personal emails to their friends and it would be completely free, Khairun said.He earlier said those wanting to send emails to myemail.my accounts will have to pay a maximum of 50 sen an email, adding Tricubes expects to sign up 5.4 million users within the next six months, or about 900,000 users a month.
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