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The point is to recognise the email/situation as phishing or otherwise malicious before deciding to click the link. The chance of clicking a malicious link on H
by ubercow13 6y ago
The point is to recognise the email/situation as phishing or otherwise malicious before deciding to click the link. The chance of clicking a malicious link on HN is pretty low if you stick to the front page.
- marcosdumay 6y agoOk, so you close a tiny window, while leaving the entire web open as a giant door by its side. And you do by a really invasive means that will make sure that everybody that knows what they are doing but are curious to safely inspect it further will be marked as clueless. Leading to false positive and negative errors larger than the signal, but you still expect to get useful data from it.