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I see useful text formatting every day in the emails I send and receive. A reasonable person would accept that other people’s use cases and preferences are vali

I see useful text formatting every day in the emails I send and receive. A reasonable person would accept that other people’s use cases and preferences are valid instead of writing haughty diatribes about what the platonic ideal of email should look like.

throw0101a 7y ago
I accept that other people's use cases and preferences differ. But given the carnage that HTML e-mail being the normal has caused in phishing and other privacy invading manners, I question whether the benefits of those use cases and preferences out-weight the detriments of the practice. Just ask John Podesta: > SecureWorks concluded Fancy Bear had sent Podesta an email on March 19, 2016, that had the appearance of a Google security alert, but actually contained a misleading link—a strategy known as spear-phishing. (This tactic has also been used by hackers to break into the accounts of other notable persons, such as Colin Powell). The link[10]—which used the URL shortening service Bitly—brought Podesta to a fake log-in page where he entered his Gmail credentials.[1][9][11][12] The email was initially sent to the IT department as it was suspected of being a fake but was described as "legitimate" in an e-mail sent by a department employee, who later said he meant to write "illegitimate".[13][14][15] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_emails https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_emails Or countless others who have been phished.
- throw0101a 7y ago
  Replying to myself with an example of brain damage HTML e-mail, the contents of a message body: > <html><head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> > <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=https://c.na39.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.EmailAttachmentDownload?q= https://c.na39.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.EmailAttach... [...] "> > </head><body> > <div>Attachment not opening? Click this link: <a href="https://c.na39.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.EmailAttachmentDownload?q= https://c.na39.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.EmailAttach... [...] ">ColorAnalysisWithOMA300.pdf</a> > </div></html> From a post made today: * https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ch83sz/ https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ch83sz/

throw0101a 7y ago

I accept that other people's use cases and preferences differ. But given the carnage that HTML e-mail being the normal has caused in phishing and other privacy invading manners, I question whether the benefits of those use cases and preferences out-weight the detriments of the practice. Just ask John Podesta: > SecureWorks concluded Fancy Bear had sent Podesta an email on March 19, 2016, that had the appearance of a Google security alert, but actually contained a misleading link—a strategy known as spear-phishing. (This tactic has also been used by hackers to break into the accounts of other notable persons, such as Colin Powell). The link[10]—which used the URL shortening service Bitly—brought Podesta to a fake log-in page where he entered his Gmail credentials.[1][9][11][12] The email was initially sent to the IT department as it was suspected of being a fake but was described as "legitimate" in an e-mail sent by a department employee, who later said he meant to write "illegitimate".[13][14][15] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_emails https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_emails Or countless others who have been phished.

throw0101a 7y ago
Replying to myself with an example of brain damage HTML e-mail, the contents of a message body: > <html><head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> > <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=https://c.na39.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.EmailAttachmentDownload?q= https://c.na39.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.EmailAttach... [...] "> > </head><body> > <div>Attachment not opening? Click this link: <a href="https://c.na39.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.EmailAttachmentDownload?q= https://c.na39.content.force.com/servlet/servlet.EmailAttach... [...] ">ColorAnalysisWithOMA300.pdf</a> > </div></html> From a post made today: * https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ch83sz/ https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ch83sz/