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SPOOFED: Re: <META> overloading...

Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com

Fri May 29 16:43:41 BST 2020

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On May 29, 2020, at 17:17, James Tomasino <tomasino at lavabit.com> wrote:
These are security things, not a matter of convenience and pretty
display. An image link pointing to a tracking pixel shouldn't auto-load.
A data link trying to run an arbitrary script should be seen for what it is.

Right. That said, where does the content originate from? The users themselves. For their own convenience, supposedly.

Hopefully they will not poison themselves with toxic content.

But, if they choose to, well, then, it's their own deliberate choice. Medical advise be damned.

Have a large serving of metaphorical chloroquine with that thought :P

"As a scientist, you have a loyalty to reason. It makes you a little untrustworthy.”-- General Mark Naird, Space Force, 2020

-- PA