[ExI] Phishing URLs: was The enthusiast

[Chris Hibbert]

Samantha, did you look at that citation before you forwarded it?  (I 
assume you didn't construct the hidden URL you sent out.)

What people with mailers that display html saw looked like this:

The Enthusiast by David Ewing Duncan
A controversial biologist at Harvard claims he can extend life span and 
treat diseases of aging. He may be right.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19172/

Both the title and the url were encoded links.  And while the URL works 
fine, the link under it was something obnoxious!

"http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe3115747c650675741474&ls=fdef1573716c0d7872107371&m=ff011674776105&l=fec4127776650574&s=fe2f167274620075741371&jb=ffcf14&t="

There's no way for anyone to safely click on something like that.  It 
would be much more polite to just send us the visible link, and not the 
obfuscated link that presumably goes through someone's tracking system.

Grumble,
Chris
-- 
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wobbly step is skydiving, every game of hide and seek is Einstein
in 1905.--Alison Gopnik (http://edge.org/q2005/q05_9.html#gopnik)

Chris Hibbert
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