Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
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Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#12Since you can't exhaustively enumerate every good thing or every bad thing on the internet, a lot of security detection mechanisms are based on heuristics. These heuristics produce a fair number of false positives as it is. If you bring the rate up, it just increases the likelihood that your security folks will miss bad things down the line.
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#13Not bad! https://carnalflicks.online/var/lib/systemd/coredump/logging...
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
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#16I know it's a joke and I had a sensible chuckle, but if you want to routinely use it at work, just keep in mind that it's probably gonna make things worse. Since you can't exhaustively enumerate every good thing or every bad thing on the internet, a lot of security detection mechanisms are based on heuristics. These heuristics produce a fair number of false positives as it is. If you bring the rate up, it just increa…
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#17Imagine if they later update these links to actually phish people. That'd be pretty funny.
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#18I know it's a joke and I had a sensible chuckle, but if you want to routinely use it at work, just keep in mind that it's probably gonna make things worse. Since you can't exhaustively enumerate every good thing or every bad thing on the internet, a lot of security detection mechanisms are based on heuristics. These heuristics produce a fair number of false positives as it is. If you bring the rate up, it just increa…
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#19I know it's a joke and I had a sensible chuckle, but if you want to routinely use it at work, just keep in mind that it's probably gonna make things worse. Since you can't exhaustively enumerate every good thing or every bad thing on the internet, a lot of security detection mechanisms are based on heuristics. These heuristics produce a fair number of false positives as it is. If you bring the rate up, it just increa…
I think the lesson here is that any link in an email is bad. We should just block all of them.