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Oh, cool. I can finally fix the bug/feature that whenever someone replied to an email from me they got warned about profanity because of my last name :-)
Could be worse: you could have graduated Summa cum laude and have the store refuse to put that on your graduation cake! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/2...
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And when my email client doesn't fetch remote content, it will be a problem :) So maybe I'll be replying "Why did you send me an empty message?" And maybe some email list software will have the same problem.
But the email is readable, it has a link to a message online. It is not a change to the standard, since it's in the body, where you can write whatever you like. In fact, it's not even unprecedented, because Cisco has been offering this exact same type of system for years generally for PHI and other sensitive uses.
It was a message with instructions to save the .html attachment to your hard drive and open it there. It included tons of obfuscated Javascript.
Without opening the message I replied back and told them "Nope. We're not going to communicate this way, this is irresponsible and dangerous."
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May I have an off topic question? I know I read in an article that Cloudbleed woke you up like 1:23AM but I can't find that article any more and I used that to tell my junior developers to write code they can understand when they are woken at 1:23AM as you were. So the question is -- is this true or did I dream up something?
That is true. I woke to my phone ringing quickly followed by this exchange of messages: https://imgur.com/a/7aLLw22
Oh, cool. I can finally fix the bug/feature that whenever someone replied to an email from me they got warned about profanity because of my last name :-)
Could be worse: you could have graduated Summa cum laude and have the store refuse to put that on your graduation cake! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/2...
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Or Email Connection! http://web.archive.org/web/19980212160741/http://www.email-c... edit: fix link
Or, if you lived in Eastern Europe, The Bat1[1] - and it is still actively supported! I switched to Opera Mail because it was convenient to have the browser and email client in one software (which is also freeware), but that went with the Chropera move. [1] https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/
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That is true. I woke to my phone ringing quickly followed by this exchange of messages: https://imgur.com/a/7aLLw22
I would love to read about this somewhere. I also share the grand-posters opinion that sharing these kinds of stories with less experienced developers is fantastic culture.
Oh, cool. I can finally fix the bug/feature that whenever someone replied to an email from me they got warned about profanity because of my last name :-)
Hehe, to be completely fair with you the first time I came across your name I thought you were pulling a very long prank. But you don't get to choose your name. An architect in the Netherlands had 'Rothuizen' as his last name, which translates to 'Rotten houses', not the best name for an architect so he changed it to 'Rotshuizen', which translates as 'Houses built like rocks'. Much better :) In your case I wouldn't c…
Clan Cumming (or Comyn): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Cumming
Clan Graham: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Graham
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POP3 is horribly inefficient and SNMP is a security disaster waiting to happen. At least POP3 isn’t widely used anymore.
Why is POP3 horribly inefficient? Lack of an equivalent to the IMAP COMPRESS extension?
It’s optimized for a usecase that doesn’t exist anymore and it will work in the usecase that does exist while wasting a lot of resources. Truly the worst you can have. It’d be better if it didn’t work at all.
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But the email is readable, it has a link to a message online. It is not a change to the standard, since it's in the body, where you can write whatever you like. In fact, it's not even unprecedented, because Cisco has been offering this exact same type of system for years generally for PHI and other sensitive uses.
My bank send me a "Secure Cisco Message". That I think was In response to a web message support request. They didn't tell me in what form to accept the response. It was a message with instructions to save the .html attachment to your hard drive and open it there. It included tons of obfuscated Javascript. Without opening the message I replied back and told them "Nope. We're not going to communicate this way, this is…
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I would love to read about this somewhere. I also share the grand-posters opinion that sharing these kinds of stories with less experienced developers is fantastic culture.
I've done two talks on Cloudbleed (at Virus Bulletin 2017 and at RSA 2018). I would be happy to do a talk about it again somewhere.