Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gary McGath Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Ansible 444 -- July 2024 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 14:49:12 -0400 Organization: Mad Scientists' Union Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:49:13 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="75bf0c1ab10cf5b92f1023ad9da3e83d"; logging-data="1276980"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18IWho9CiPg0uVwoPoEcEqa6WL3JbkZqLg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Sy9cfv7NcY4Bjze6w55SabKKWhI= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2056 On 7/1/24 12:02 PM, David Langford wrote: > EDITORIAL. Being routinely paranoid about links that don't go where > claimed, I was a little slow to vote in 2026 Worldcon site selection. The > email from the voting subcontractor ElectionBuddy Inc shows the URL as > 'secure.electionbuddy.com/' followed by the promised 19-character voter ID > -- but hovering over the link reveals it as 'go.electionbuddy.com/' plus > some 200 characters of alphanumerical gibberish. No doubt there are vitally > important security reasons for this.... This is a universal problem with mailing list services these days. They include an image element just so the sender will be pinged every time someone opens a message. The links all contain personalized tracking information. In many cases they don't even go to the alleged destination, but to a URL that may, if it feels like it, redirect you there after sucking out all the personalized information, or could take you somewhere else for all you know. -- Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com