On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 07:26:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Brad Rogers writes: > > Except that the worst offenders are commercial entities such google, > > ebay(1), all banks, amazon, etc, etc. ad nauseam. *None* of them are > > going to remove HTML and/or CSS from their emails until something > > 'better'(2) comes along. > > Some banks have found something "better". Their emails contain a link > which automatically opens a page on their site in your browser (they > assume that everyone reads email in a browser, of course). They claim > this is more secure.
Horrifying. [...] > There is no point in complaining. 99% of users object to anything *but* > html mail. Most don't know that anything else exists. For me, that would be a reason to change the bank. My bank offers a standardized protocol based on public key cryptography. I can initiate a transaction (or fetch records) with a simple shell script. No browser involved. Cheers -- t
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