My browser (Fennec) blocked the phishy URL, great.
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?
#102In a big enough corpo this is how to get fired quick and hard
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The message format is not dangerous. It is the message viewers that are dangerous in this particular regard." Ah, I see. We should allow HTML but display it as plain text.
Or do what actually happened in the 20 years since that myth was actively doing the rounds: display HTML with sandboxed text/html viewers, as pine was doing back then, and as other systems eventually cottoned on to doing. By the time that the 2010s came along, the idea of sandboxing had taken root. Even in the middle 2000s, mail readers such as NEO and Eudora came with feature-reduced internal HTML viewers as an opti…
Thats a lot of effort compared to just plaintext that not only need none of this but also looks more professional, saves time and bandwidth.
The only people who care about HTML mails are scammer and marketing.
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not going to lie, I was expecting this[1]. Maybe it's just not done on HN. 1: https://pc-helper.xyz/scanner-snatcher/session-snatcher/cred...
You innocent young being. There are some gaping holes in your Internet lore knowledge, but it's been eons since that's been seen in the wild.
I miss the days of goatse
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#105Ha! Great minds think alike. We have something that makes genuine links look malicious at work too. I think it’s called Microsoft Safelink or something. Its purpose is to go through your Outlook inbox and obscure the origin of every link because, obviously, being able to understand what you’re clicking on is bad. Remember kids, no one ever gets fired for buying Microsoft. ;)
hahaha yes, a couple of months ago some microsoft servers where down or really slow so no links from emails worked.
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#106I think they should have used an malicious looking URL instead to get to the website
https://pc-helper.xyz/root-exploit/virus_loader_tool.exe?id=...
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#107@dang is going to hate me for a few weeks... EDIT: hehe got one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45297475
Vouched lmao
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#108Stuff like this is good for infinite loops: https://gonephishing.me/shell-jacker/shell-jacker/worm_launc...
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the amounts are so tiny, couldn't the company just voluntarily overpay everyone by three dollars a year and call it a day?
Only most of the amounts were tiny, so all the effort for the re-calculation was still needed for everyone (basically either building a payroll engine from scratch, or paying someone else to use theirs). You're right, that for most current employees, for the small amounts it actually is much simpler. You can just email and slip it into the regular payroll. It is the former employees for up to 15 years that make the c…
Thanks for the detailed answer.
> It is the former employees for up to 15 years that make the contacting step difficult. They all need to provide bank/tax details.
Give people 30 dollars extra on their way out, and only contact them when you used up that budget? (Should take care of the majority of cases?)
> Edit: I should have said, I did see companies rounding all amounts up to some small amount, like $1, so your suggestion is good. It just doesn't save effort on recalculation, or much effort in getting people to dig the email out of their trash folder and provide their information to receive their $1.
Oh, my suggestion was to do the calculation, as arduously as you describe, compare with what you already overpaid earlier voluntarily, and if the company is still in the green, then don't bother contacting anyone.
Or is that not possible?
Re: Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
The way they used to handle that at a FAANG I worked for was they had this app installed on each machine issued by IT, that would ask you a question daily about some aspect of your workplace. Handles all the phishing concerns, except that participation was either low or the feedback was negative, which would lead to the leaders issuing subtle threats to the team about how they'd find out the involved folks and fire t…
> So, in the end, people just started giving the best possible feedback regardless of the team or manager performance. That seems to be the best possible strategy for any feedback you have to give as a captive audience? Reminds me of the feedback German companies are forced to give about their employees. It's like a formal letter of reference, but you can and will be sued if you you anything negative. Consequences ar…
> And because there has been an inflation in how complimentary these letters are, people started suing when their letter wasn't flowery enough, because that somehow could be read as an implicit criticism.
You got a source for this folktale?