On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 2:41 PM Ralph Seichter via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > * Brandon Long: > > > If we leave googlers.com open, then phishers are going to use it to > > send messages looking like [...] "secur...@googlers.com" and do what > > they do best. > > One solution to that is not to use "googlers.com", but to use a domain > name with no visible ties to a particular company. That's one reason I > use the likes of "monksofcool.net", where the only affiliation is with > the late and sorely missed Terry Pratchett. > > A humorous domain name like that gives phishers little incentive to > abuse it, and even if they do, who would believe a spoofed message to be > sent by some bank, institution or similar?
This is silly. Stop pushing this. If every Googler started posting from monksofcool.net then there would grow, over time, a population of people who understood that this was a Googler domain and those people could potentially be a prime spear phishing target. The goal is to close the holes, not just shift them 2 feet to the left. Regards, Al Iverson -- Al Iverson // Wombatmail // Chicago Song a day! https://www.wombatmail.com Deliverability! https://spamresource.com And DNS Tools too! https://xnnd.com _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
