Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!border-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!eu1.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=\nZ4ano6K;bLK`14f`d3cmVLoAL\f[]NkZ;Eh0g1E:IoEFHKoRnSXPnD1d8;0A_B7bOYN\n:GP?0j83bFjbjSf5f[X@;]L61lWbfEiDETl;m_gLaEDT?N56Ab X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net From: Mark Lloyd Subject: Re: ThunderMail is coming soon Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.comp.os.windows-10 References: <1qtcu2gjgv16u$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <628uid68h3pn.dlg@v.nguard.lh> MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 03 May 2025 19:14:15 GMT Lines: 75 Message-ID: <68166b07$0$19$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1746299655 reader.netnews.com 19 127.0.0.1:39637 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:19016 alt.comp.software.thunderbird:16505 alt.comp.os.windows-10:184270 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 wrote: >>>> Daniel70 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