Re:HTML is the Web
by u801e on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:10AM
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The real question is why should links in an email message be clickable? Restricting email messages to plain text would make it much more difficult for attacks like that to succeed.
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Re:HTML is the Web
by BlueTemplar on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:11PM
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URLs are plain text... Can also easily be clickable, depending on your e-mail software.
They are, but some email clients will display text that doesn't match the original URL. Hence the advice to hover the mouse pointer over the link and tread the original URL text that way.
Re:HTML is the Web
by BlueTemplar on Saturday June 29, 2019 @05:02AM
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If you use plain text mode they won't be able to. Hence the advice to disable HTML in e-mails.
... and make emails completely useless.
Re:HTML is the Web
by dijksterhuis on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @11:27AM
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Ever head of copy & paste?
Won’t make them “useless”, maybe inconvenient for non-security minded individuals.
if You make emails inconvenient for non-security minded people by removing something as important as links, you will push mainstream users to move away of the medium (because other way to communicate will definitely support links and not force people to copy paste), which doesn’t help or solve anything.