Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: ThunderMail is coming soon Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 23:53:17 +0200 Lines: 82 Message-ID: References: <1qtcu2gjgv16u$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <628uid68h3pn.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <68166b07$0$19$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net F4eiWUmShukEKsiEMMtwIgvVbAgxEIrm+u2v5Yg58b0E0YJiNo X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:dbaxs/BKwJuAvRJ475cYMKhq0XM= sha256:boGGoZ1qIx2nrjv4ZAvc2Cq+NHQRruB0sAala6Vm7pI= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <68166b07$0$19$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:19018 alt.comp.software.thunderbird:16506 alt.comp.os.windows-10:184276 On 2025-05-03 21:14, Mark Lloyd wrote: > 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. That's one of the tricks. Another is to name it bill.pdf .exe with a lot of spaces hopping to make the extension flow out of the window. By the way, this trick doesn't work on Linux and TB. Double click doesn't run an attachment, because it needs to be flagged as executable. Also, it is quite simple to configure a mail server to block any email that contain executable attachments. Another trick for some time was to email nice screensavers. -- Cheers, Carlos.