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I find it bonkers that we have settled on a design for browsers under which merely clicking a link is enough to expose you to a malware threat. It's like we re
by __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
I find it bonkers that we have settled on a design for browsers under which merely clicking a link is enough to expose you to a malware threat.
It's like we received the good advice:
> don't eat things you can't identify
but somewhere along the way we got our wires crossed so now it's
> don't look at things you can't identify
But we're still acting like only an idiot would ever fail to adhere to this perfectly reasonable advice, when actually it's a recipe for having users with no idea what a real threat actually looks like.
Much better would be if you can safely click all links (just don't, you know, run it or whatever the dangerous action is) so that you can annotate what you find there as either threatening or trustworthy--the better to help out your peers.
- psd1 2y agoWell, hyperlinks, SMTP, browser scripting (less so): these things come from a time when the internet was a community, not a venue for crime. The first viruses were from clever under-socialised children. It was a playground and everyone was safe. Now we regret our naivety, but it's too late to take a systemic approach. It's all grandfathered in.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI think that sooner or later, the threats will become sophisticated enough to ungrandfather it.