[LINK] ABC Your Space

[Stephen Rothwell]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:20:05 +1000 Stephen Loosley <stephenloosley at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.abcyourspace.net.au
> 
> 
> YourSpace is an online community that we have set up in Australia to get closer to you - to understand your thoughts, needs, concerns, hopes and dreams and to put you at the centre of everything we do. With your help, our aim is to continuously bring our audience together to evolve and improve the ABC experience. 
> 
> To apply for membership at YourSpace, simply click ‘Next’ below to complete our short registration activity. We should need no longer than 10 minutes of your time. 
> 
> All those who successfully apply to join the community will be invited to participate in our ongoing activities where your feedback will help impact the way we do things at the ABC.

So, this is just annoying ... how do we know that this new site is
associated with the ABC that we care about?  A whois lookup finds:

Registrant:                      Vision Critical Communications Pty Limited

whoever they are (looks like a marketing company).  So I search the ABC
web site for "Your Space" which leads me to
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2016/07/12/4499214.htm which says
(in part):

Sign up online here: yourspace.abc.net.au

That url text above is actually a link to:
https://www.abcyourspace.net.au/Portal/default.aspx

One of the things we are taught (at my workplace at least) is to be
very suspicious if the visible link does not match the actual link).
And to top it off, yourspace.abc.net.au does not exist in the DNS.

If they had used yourspace.abc.net.au it would have been much easier to
trust and make more sense.  (Even if they needed an external marketing
company to actually run the site.)

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell