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> Is that the most widespread vector for attack? Probably not. Yeah one big issue I had with the article was the assertion that telling people to open a file l
by Volundr 3y ago
> Is that the most widespread vector for attack? Probably not.
Yeah one big issue I had with the article was the assertion that telling people to open a file like VacationPhotos.zip isn't something humans do. Is it common? Probably not, but there are a LOT of humans. Even 1% of them doing something makes for a huge attack surface. The vacation photos example is also probably not a very good one. How many README.md files are there out there telling someone to look in assets.zip for the webserver assets, or docs.zip for documentation? Someone seeing this is a link would likely reasonably assume it's a link to the file in the repository, and I'm sure someone more creative than me could get up to all sorts of interesting shenanigans with that (incorrect) assumption.
- hfkwer 3y agoI guess we should revoke Molvoda's TLD then. One could think that readme.md is a file and not a domain.
- Volundr 3y agoGuess which is older, Moldova's .md TLD or markdown? Just because we aren't going to go retroactively revoking TLDs doesn't mean we should actively make the problem worse. For the same reason we probably shouldn't start using the COM file extension for something again.