On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 09:22:14 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

> Similarly with email. It was perfectly safe for quite awhile before
> people started getting the idea to start sending attack files named
> something.doc.exe.
>
More to the point, Email became unsafe when preview windows were added
and stupid people didn't disable them.

Preview is dangerous because it tries to display all photos and execute
all executable attachments and, if its enabled, you can't chose what it
tries the display.

The only safe MUAs are those that allow preview to be turned off *and*
can be configured to only show plaintext by default.

Similarly, its well worth having a plaintext web browser, such as Lynx,
installed. Not for everyday use, but looking at any website you think may
be dodgy before you point you all-singing, all-dancing graphical web
browser at it.


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