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Re: ThunderMail is coming soon

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From Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid>
Subject Re: ThunderMail is coming soon
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On Sat, 3 May 2025 14:39:20 -0400, Paul wrote:

> On Sat, 5/3/2025 9:50 AM, David wrote:
>> On 22/04/2025 14:58, Chris wrote:
>>> VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:
>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 22/04/2025 2:53 am, s|b wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 15:49:15 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Additionally, you will be able to bring your own domain on day 1
>>>>>>> of the service."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't own a domain, I've registered it and pay for mailhosting to
>>>>>> a firm in a country that respects GDPR. Why would want to move?
>>>>>>
>>>>> "GDPR"?? Thank you, Google and Wikipedia
>>>>>
>>>>> "General Data Protection Regulation"
>>>>>
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
>>>>
>>>> GDPR ruined DNS lookups by requiring redaction of registrants. 
>>>> Trying to get contact info on a domain registrant to alert them to a
>>>> problem with their web site becomes much more difficult.  Yeah, they
>>>> want to provide a publicly accessible web site, but the registrant
>>>> wants to hide.  Thanks GDPR ... not!
>>>
>>> A decent website will a contact option. You should not have to be
>>> forced to give out personal information via a WHOIS lookup.
>>>
>>> So yes, thanks GDPR.
>> 
>> DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ADVICE.
>> 
>> Never click links nor run software from someone you don't know
>> supposedly trying to help.
>> 
>> 
> Redaction of contact information is a good thing.
> (It's a tradeoff caused by the world we live in.)
> 
> a guy on USENET, had his computer room wiped out by ransomware.
> How was he selected ? He registered a web domain with GoDaddy, showing
> his personal information. he wasn't cloaked.
> 
> One day, an email arrived, with a "bill" attached from GoDaddy.
> except, the email wasn't actually from GoDaddy. It was from a Black Hat.
> The Black Hat scanned GoDaddy and extracted all the email addresses. The
> attachment on the email is actually an executable ransomware. All you
> need to do is double click it, thinking it is a PDF. 

Could that attachment have had a name like:

bill.pdf.exe

And Windows hid the extension, making it look like:

bill.pdf

Windows would still know that the extension was exe even though it looked 
like a pdf. That makes it look like M$ made a bad decision.

> The code included a
> worm,
> so the code could attack all the computers.

[snip]

-- 
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"The foolish renounce this world and pursue an imaginary world to come."
-- Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Italian philosopher

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        Re: ThunderMail is coming soon Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-04-22 20:07 +1000
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                Re: ThunderMail is coming soon Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-05-03 14:39 -0400
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                Re: ThunderMail is coming soon "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-03 23:53 +0200
                Re: ThunderMail is coming soon Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-05-04 13:31 +0000
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