[LINK] The bad guys have won

[Ivan Trundle]

On 01/09/2008, at 11:41 AM, Rick Welykochy wrote:

> How often do you pause and read the email headers and evaluate their
> veracity or lack thereof?
>
> How many emails do you get every day that ask you to click on a link
> to watch a video on You Tube or to grab a joke, a picture or an e- 
> card?
>
> If such an email contains personal information about you, perhaps  
> gleaned
> by an attacker who has visited your PC, would you be fooled? Would  
> you be
> fooled if you were in a rush and not thinking clearly?
>
> cheers
> rickw

Blimey, Rick - my assessment is that you take greater risks than I  
ever do... (warning bells would be going off with 'undisclosed  
recipients' - in this instance of a purported one-on-one transaction -  
for starters, but if I didn't know the person, even more so).

Incidentally, is it just a MacOS feature, or do other mail  
applications show what the REAL link is when hovering over a supposed  
identified URL whilst reading the mail message? Further, do other mail  
apps allow you to switch easily between 'summary' header info, and  
full headers?

iT