[LINK] The bad guys have won
Ivan Trundle
ivan at itrundle.com
Mon Sep 1 12:44:02 AEST 2008
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
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