On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 2:25 PM Al Iverson via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote:
> 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 biggest hole will be for spear phishing, in fact, where another Googler is the target. Brandon
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