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Re:HTML is the Web by moviuro on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @08:13AM (#20284153)
> for something terrible to happen if they [click links in their email].

There are very few RCEs now on modern browser (they still exist[0,1], though). The main threat is phishing, because users are gullible (and should be educated).

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-1...

[1] https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x43.html

And: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20283922

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Re:HTML is the Web by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:25AM (#20284736)
You don't need to exploit a browser when Adobe still can't fix the holes in Reader and corporate users are still heavily dependent on Outlook.
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