Re: Ansible 444 -- July 2024

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Sujet : Re: Ansible 444 -- July 2024
De : garym (at) *nospam* mcgath.com (Gary McGath)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.fandom
Date : 01. Jul 2024, 19:49:12
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Organisation : Mad Scientists' Union
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On 7/1/24 12:02 PM, David Langford wrote:
EDITORIAL. Being routinely paranoid about links that don't go where
claimed, I was a little slow to vote in 2026 Worldcon site selection. The
email from the voting subcontractor ElectionBuddy Inc shows the URL as
'secure.electionbuddy.com/' followed by the promised 19-character voter ID
-- but hovering over the link reveals it as 'go.electionbuddy.com/' plus
some 200 characters of alphanumerical gibberish. No doubt there are vitally
important security reasons for this....
This is a universal problem with mailing list services these days. They include an image element just so the sender will be pinged every time someone opens a message. The links all contain personalized tracking information. In many cases they don't even go to the alleged destination, but to a URL that may, if it feels like it, redirect you there after sucking out all the personalized information, or could take you somewhere else for all you know.
--
Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com

Date Sujet#  Auteur
1 Jul 24 * Ansible 444 -- July 20244David Langford
1 Jul 24 `* Re: Ansible 444 -- July 20243Gary McGath
1 Jul 24  +- Re: Ansible 444 -- July 20241Keith F. Lynch
2 Jul 24  `- Re: Ansible 444 -- July 20241Cryptoengineer

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