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You're expanding on my point exactly. The Internet does not have such an obvious dark alley. You can copy HTML/CSS, have anchors with a different href than show
by RegEx 14y ago
You're expanding on my point exactly. The Internet does not have such an obvious dark alley. You can copy HTML/CSS, have anchors with a different href than shown, and a lot of sly things. I hate using anologies when talking to hackers, so I didn't use the alleyway example even though I was thinking it.
- enraged_camel 14y ago>>You're expanding on my point exactly. The Internet does not have such an obvious dark alley. Not literally, no. But most Internet scams can actually be avoided using common sense, which dictates that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
- jlgreco 14y ago> The Internet does not have such an obvious dark alley. http://p3n1zp1llz.48djkhcd.com.shadyurl.info/freemoneyz.exe http://p3n1zp1llz.48djkhcd.com.shadyurl.info/freemoneyz.exe ;) Edit: Forgot about this site, but perhaps it could be used as a training tool for family members you feel are not quite as savy as they should be: http://www.shadyurl.com/ http://www.shadyurl.com/ Make a page that just says "Grandma, don't click links like that!", convert it to a "shady" url with shadyurl.com, then email it to your grandmother.
- DanBC 14y agoA nice idea! But [urls are disguised so easily](http://horribleurl.example.com http://horribleurl.example.com). The A element has split the real URL from the text description since forever.
- jlgreco 14y agoGood point. Training family members to look at the status bar first is probably pretty hard, and probably not even effective. At the very least you would have to train them to recognize and avoid url shortening services...