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I think a lot of us have come up with variations on this idea over the years. (I know I have. The holy grail is surreptitiously installing a Greasemonkey scri
by jawns 12y ago
I think a lot of us have come up with variations on this idea over the years. (I know I have. The holy grail is surreptitiously installing a Greasemonkey script on a co-worker's computer, so that the URL is the real URL.)
But what's changed in the last year or two is that people are now much more familiar with URL shortener links. Every major media site is using them, and just about everybody understands what their purpose is.
I can totally see how someone who would spot a phishing page from a mile away because of the strange URL might overlook the fact that a URL shortener doesn't actually redirect you to the legit page, but rather presents a spoofed version.
- mikeash 12y agoI tried it on a tech-savvy friend, taking a news story about GM firing engineers over the recall and changing the headline to say that they fired Bob Dole. His immediate reaction was to think that the WSJ got hacked, with the secondary possibility that Bob Dole really did work for GM somehow. He didn't realize what was going on until I posted a second version saying he had been fired by GM. Be careful out there, kids.
- makmanalp 12y agoThere's this kind of prank too: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ncage/hnbmfljfohghaepamnfokgggaejlmfol?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ncage/hnbmfljfohgh...