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Re:Show HN: Open your stupid link in a safe space so it does... by renewiltord on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:12AM (#24219807)
So I got this spam link via SMS. And I did something like this. I was all like "Haha! I will outsmart these mutton-brains with my `curl` on EC2!"

Instead, what happened is that the URL was unique and it validated my phone number. Now I constantly get that variety of spam. NUuuuuuuuuu

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Re:Show HN: Open your stupid link in a safe space so it does... by marapuru on Thursday August 20, 2020 @08:28AM (#24222502)
Seeing that most of the URL's have unique strings in them that could be expected right? ;)
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Re:Show HN: Open your stupid link in a safe space so it does... by Can_Not on Friday August 21, 2020 @09:24PM (#24240777)
Worse: some SMS apps will automatically try to fetch thumbnails...
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Re:Show HN: Open your stupid link in a safe space so it does... by NetOpWibby on Thursday August 20, 2020 @02:32AM (#24220487)
OOF

The bastards are getting smarter

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