... sorry sent this to soon... > -----Original Message----- > From: Sellam Abraham via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Sent: Friday, July 7, 2023 8:24 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Cc: Sellam Abraham <sellam.ism...@gmail.com> > Subject: [cctalk] Re: BEWARE: Phishing > > On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 5:47 PM Doug Jackson via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > Kind of like making sure that 400V capacitor was discharged before > > handing it to your lab mate in class :-) > > > > How else are we to know that the capacitor is charged, or that the link is > dangerous?
Despite what your browser says, the link itself isn't dangerous. Web browsers aren't dangerous. Its USERS that are dangerous. If it’s phishing it its relying on you putting in a password from another site, or in selling you something like e-currency. (bitcoin is down again today) So before touching any high voltage capacitor best practice is to a discharge resistor across the terminals and not rely on time or another person to discharge it. So before putting your username and password into a web site it’s a good idea to check the whole URL matches what you expect. Often such e-mails will try and convince you something is time critical so in this case " expires in 24 hrs time. This is to panic you into not making such checks.... ... personally, I recommend a password manager. The you don't know any passwords and can't put them in by accident, and it knows which passwords match which site URL so it won't put them in a phishing site.... > > ;) > > Sellam Dave
