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Blocking scammers is not censorship.
> I’m not reading it, but ... [strong opinion unrelated to the actual content of the article they chose not to read] This statement is so strongly emblematic of today's political discourse.
Before anyone launches themselves into the sky: the title is clickbait. This is about phishing attempts that use ICE to persuade you to click. Sendgrid the company is not emailing about supporting ICE. But technically Sendgrid the infrastructure is.
Maybe one day our knee jerk reactionary outrage will be quelled not by any enlightenment but because we are forced to grow weary of falling prey to phishing attacks. I'd feel pretty stupid getting worked up about something only to realize that getting worked up about it was used against me. I'm writing this because for a moment I did get worked up and then had the slow realization it was a phishing attack, slightly b…
Before anyone launches themselves into the sky: the title is clickbait. This is about phishing attempts that use ICE to persuade you to click. Sendgrid the company is not emailing about supporting ICE. But technically Sendgrid the infrastructure is.
" The fundamental issue is that SendGrid’s business model depends on making it easy for legitimate businesses to send email at scale. " I disagree with this conclusion, if not only because other email service providers don't have this issue. It wouldn't surprise me if something was broken with SendGrid's internal infrastructure. I used to be a SendGrid customer until my deliverability started being affected by this i…
Before anyone launches themselves into the sky: the title is clickbait. This is about phishing attempts that use ICE to persuade you to click. Sendgrid the company is not emailing about supporting ICE. But technically Sendgrid the infrastructure is.
I think HN should embrace AI to the point of having an alternative AI-generated title next to the original title, to reduce clickbait and reduce the global rage index.
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Possible alternative titles that better match the article’s content:
How Phishers Are Using SendGrid to Target SendGrid Users with Political Bait
– Accurately reflects the mechanism (SendGrid abuse), the audience, and the novel political/social-engineering angle.
SendGrid Account Takeovers Are Fueling a Sophisticated Phishing Ecosystem
– More technical / HN-native framing, avoids culture-war implications.
Phishception: Politically Targeted Phishing Sent Through Compromised SendGrid Accounts
– Highlights the core insight and the self-reinforcing nature of the attack.
It's especially funny because SendGrid isn't even one of our vendors.
It might be 50 days by an (admittedly very cool) bus, but it's only 84 days in foot!
* Consult your Google Maps and a sense of humor if it sounds to good to be true!