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How did that user get to such a website in the first place? Through a link in an email message? The ability to receive such messages from random people should
by domador 3y ago
How did that user get to such a website in the first place? Through a link in an email message? The ability to receive such messages from random people should be locked down, if a user or their IT security guardian has so chosen. Through a website? Maybe that user or their IT security trustee would prefer for their browser to be locked down so they can only access a website from a whitelist that's been customized for them. Maybe they can still access their local hair salon's website, but not the site linked to fake warning page that shows up on that site.
Not every user needs to be able to go to any corner of the web on a whim. Maybe my elderly future self needs to have less freedom of inquiry, as much as it pains to think of that likely future.
- fortran77 3y ago> How did that user get to such a website in the first place? Through a link in an email message? Nope. Through an expired domain of a once-legit site that was taken over, or through a mom-and-pop legit business that had their website taken over because of a wordpress bug. My brother mentioned to me the other day that he got to a "computer has been infected -- call this number" website from clicking on a Facebook ad!