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Email is push, websites are pull. If you never choose to visit a website, then you'll never see a link on it. Most of the websites you do visit already prevent
by syrrim 5y ago
Email is push, websites are pull. If you never choose to visit a website, then you'll never see a link on it. Most of the websites you do visit already prevent obfuscating links. Emails just show up in your inbox when an attacker wants them to. We could of course change that, and have people only see emails from known contacts or that they have requested. However, this destroys a major value proposition of email. Instead, it makes sense to limit the ability for senders to obfuscate the contents of email.
- tshaddox 5y agoAn attacker could email you an unobfuscated link to a website which contains obfuscated links and the threat model is exactly the same. Both require only that the victim 1) trust an email enough to click a link and then 2) trust the destination of that link enough to do the unsafe thing. Unless your computer propagates the "untrustworthiness" of the link from the email client to the browser and continues to prevent unobfuscated links, it seems like you've gained very little.
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