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This is my primary gripe with this whole thread, in most cases where abc.zip would become a link, you could just as well hyperlink it to anything, like in an em
by yonatan8070 3y ago
This is my primary gripe with this whole thread, in most cases where abc.zip would become a link, you could just as well hyperlink it to anything, like in an email, a web page, or a markdown document
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- kpw94 3y agoThe difference is the malicious actor and the email sender don't have to be the same person. A malicious user can craft an email "this is [abc.zip](http://very-bad-website http://very-bad-website)". Ok nothing new here. But a non-malicious, who's emailing their mom: "I've attached abc.zip" (and put a abc.zip as attachment). Here the problem here is a malicious other user has registered abc.zip to download a virus, and the mom's email client highlight abc.zip, and she clicks on it instead of the abc.zip attachment.
- reqrbHVPetKGE57 3y agoYes, auto-vivification of links is bad.