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Phishing email operators rejoice: Apple still are not showing emails in the Mail app, and will even scan your phishing email and rephrase it while recognising a
by cmcaleer 2y ago
Phishing email operators rejoice: Apple still are not showing emails in the Mail app, and will even scan your phishing email and rephrase it while recognising and pushing it as a priority notification.
I actually like the idea, but I worry a lot that it will lead to non tech-savvy (and tech-savvy-but-hurried) people to getting rekt. It’s still obscene to me that they don’t show the sender’s email before clicking in. It not only removes valuable information to screen emails with, but if there are tracking pixels, they fire since you must open the email for further screening. (Sender email can ofc be spooked, but this catches most spam I get)
- infinitedata 2y agoYou can open an email without loading the tracking pixels.
- benhurmarcel 2y ago> they don’t show the sender’s email before clicking in Even after clicking, you have to tap twice on the sender's to open his details and see his address. And if he's in your contacts and has more than 1 address, there's no way to know which one sent the email.
- mercutio2 2y agoYou view the contact card. The relevant email has a RECENT label.
- StrLght 2y ago> if there are tracking pixels, they fire since you must open the email for further screening What makes you think that? Email message content is plain HTML, tracking pixels are usually implemented as `<img>`s with unique link. I'd expect Apple engineers are aware of that and they can render HTML without external resources, and only then pass it to their LLM. Also Mail.app is already capable of doing that -- you can disable loading external resources by default in settings on iOS and macOS both.