Links in {Disarmed} Messages Still Function

[Daniel Straka]

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Quoting Julian Field <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>:

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> Yes, they should still work. Due to the nature of the problem,  
> identifying phishing attacks can never be totally free of false  
> alarms. So you need the original link to still work when that
> happens.
> 
> On 23 Aug 2005, at 13:46, Daniel Straka wrote:
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> > Should the web links in disarmed messages work? Mine do, what do I 
> 
> > need
> > to do?
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> Julian Field
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What is {Disarmed} telling the users then? Here, they're assuming that
any link that works is safe because we've disarmed the bad ones.

Dan Straka
Casper College
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