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There's no surprise. Gmail does. If you search for a text string in Gmail, it will return emails that contain that text only in scanned images or PDFs that ar
by supernova87a 7y ago
There's no surprise. Gmail does.
If you search for a text string in Gmail, it will return emails that contain that text only in scanned images or PDFs that are in your mailbox.
- odensc 7y agoThat doesn't mean they're crawling the URLs, just that they're indexing the content of PDFs/images for your search. Which is, honestly, a pretty useful feature. Whereas Facebook is doing this without providing any value to the user.
- badrabbit 7y agoI've worked with email security appliances that will visit the pdf url when detonating the attachment in a Sandbox. Dynamic analysis helps find 0day's ,sometimes the link leads to something worse,the link many times is a url shortner too