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Re: I was auto-outed by an IMG tag in HTML spam
William H. Geiger III enscribed thusly:
> In <[email protected]>, on 02/18/98
> at 03:00 AM, Anonymous <[email protected]> said:
> >Use mail readers that don't automatically process HTML and
> >connect to image servers, accept cookies, or run javascripts. You are
> >being watched by tricky defective, er, detective types. es.
> Several things here:
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> 2. AutoProcessing of Attachments:
> This is *allways* a BadThing(TM). Not only is it an obvious security risk
> it is a PITA for the user. I would be rally pissed if my mailer launched a
> V-Card app everytime someone thought it was a GoodThing(TM) to add these
> attachments to every message they sent out.
Oh it gets better than that! I know of one person who got hit with
a specially formated porno-spam message. When he opened it, the html message
did an autorestart on his browser and <you guessed it> there he was browsing
the porno site! What a convenient feature! Especially with you boss and
co-workers in the vicinity!
Needless to say, that person has is now a rabid anti-html in E-Mail
fanatic!
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Mike
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