[EXTERNAL] Re: TeX on Windows? [success!] [BUT PCTeX?]

Philip Taylor P.Taylor at Hellenic-Institute.Uk
Thu May 27 01:36:25 CEST 2021


>     PS Notice what our MS Exchange server does to URL’s on incoming
>     email at Villanova (scroll down below), totally garbling the
>     actual URL to make it unreadable! To “protect” us. It seems a more
>     enterprising programmer could make a way of showing the actual URL
>     in an HTML formatted incoming email while pointing to the
>     protected garbled URL underneath. Oh well.
>

> Unmangle Outlook SafelinksThunderbird plugin to unmangle Outlook 
> Protection Safelinks
> By Peter Havekes - peter at havekes.eu
>
> Based upon https://github.com/mbattersby/unmangleOutlookSafelinks
> Original version by mib at post.com
>
> Users of Office365 who have Advanced Thread Protection enabled will change
> all URL's in emails to redirect them to an Microsoft filter before 
> opening.
> This will leak information to Microsoft and makes it impossible to see if
> the original URL was safe to open.
>
> E.g. a link to
>     http://phishingsite.fake.ru/you/are/hacked.php
> will show as
>  https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fphishingsite.fake.ru%2Fyou%2Fare%2Fhacked.phpdata=02%7C01%7Csender.mail%40domain.tld%7C8177af7905a4406ecae208d5dc1fb7c9%7C87c50b582ef2423da4dbaedde7c84efcfa%7C0%7C0%7C63453351150545403+sdata=Te0O1xGxxxULxdzbxQ%2xxxyql2QjTt4Ken%2F00JB%2BV%2FPUA%3D+reserved=0
>
> and will not be recognized by a user as dangerous.
>
> This plugin will change the URL back to the original value.

> https://github.com/phavekes/unmangleOutlookSafelinks

I could not live without it.
-- 
/Philip Taylor/


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