JeffM wrote:
JeffM wrote:
People who still click links in email deserve what they get.
(Phished.)
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Not so fast. Not all links are bad, and there are good practices
that help you avoid that.
...like not clicking on the links.
If you are going to follow a link in email, cut it and paste it into
your browser. With URLs now allowed to use e.g. Cyrillic, things are
*not always* what they appear --even when you hover over links and
they look legit, these days, maybe not.
Well, sure, I suppose I could create a link like this:
<http://www.аbссоrр.com>
which contains five Cyrillic letters that look like Roman ones. But the
chances of that happening in a message from a trusted colleague are
minuscule. If some hacker got hold of his computer, they'd normally send
something full of tip-offs -- at least things that an experienced
computer user like me would spot a mile away. We're not talking about
some AOHell user who's hard pressed to find the "Start" button...
I've been doing this for 25 years, and (knock wood) I've never been
hacked, phished, or infected -- though many have tried. Please don't
take that as a challenge; I'm just saying I'm doing fine so far, and
it's because I'm a careful driver.
For example, if a colleague at ABC Corp,
whom you already know and trust,
...and whose address book got hijacked yesterday.
Thanks for snipping the other conditions I included so it would look as
if I were being unreasonable.
A similar argument can be made for attachments.
The big problem with attachments is that in order to encode them
(so they can be sent via a medium meant for plain text)
they take more bandwidth and storage space than they would
if you used an APPROPRIATE protocol to offer those.
And what, pray tell, is an appropriate protocol? Carrier pigeon? Clay
tablet?
You call it a "big" problem, but I routinely download five- and 10-MB
attachments in a minute, so I really don't care if they wasted a few
electrons. Electrons are cheap, and the supply is limitless.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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