A classic cut off the limb to fix the cut solution. The problem is bad standardization for email that has allowed hacks like this to rule the day. HTML in gene

A classic cut off the limb to fix the cut solution. The problem is bad standardization for email that has allowed hacks like this to rule the day. HTML in general is susceptible to these very concerns. Plenty of emails exist that use HTML without incident. This reads as one user’s frustration with something in the wild that is dressed as a security issue.