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It's only going to cause problems for software which tries to be too smart for its own good. Applications should not try to guess what the user meant in ambiguo
by bityard 3y ago
It's only going to cause problems for software which tries to be too smart for its own good. Applications should not try to guess what the user meant in ambiguous situations because they will often get it wrong.
- pornel 3y agoUntil now they were mostly getting it right, and unintended links were more of a minor annoyance than a risk (e.g. it happens when talking about Perl or Rust files, but programmers aren't an easy phishing target).
- waboremo 3y agoNo, it was mostly so cautious it only worked under very strict conditions (ie https and www had to be present or only certain domains) to the point of being useless. Others got quite a lot wrong such as reddit regularly cutting off valid links that left you having to manually copy the entire link anyways. The same exact security issues that are present here with .zip are also possible with unintended links.