Post Ai6zeEQGoRUePCOD7w by jonathan@charade.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ai6zeDk5LHkWIMeWNE by gnomon@mastodon.social
       2024-04-18T11:37:11Z
       
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       Yesterday I received an email from a person & address with whom I have not corresponded before.  It included about ten people in the To: field, about a 2/3 mix of people I didn't know to 1/3 people I did.  Seemed innocuous enough, invitation to a party; there was a call for urgency, no date mentioned in the email body, and a PDF attachment. Don't open the attachment, right?  Classic, textbook phishing, right?  So I responded and asked about timing.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai6zeEQGoRUePCOD7w by jonathan@charade.social
       2024-04-18T12:32:51.808237Z
       
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       @gnomon I had to make an iCloud account so that I could open an iCloud note containing a single line of text inviting me to a birthday party. 😅
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai6zeGL1guUGLVx3EO by gnomon@mastodon.social
       2024-04-18T11:38:22Z
       
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       Most days I feel like I can blend in OK with normal humans, but this time I was clearly the aliebn.  Every other person just clicked straight through to the PDF.  (Which I had to switch machines to read since my email client is mu4e running via SSH in a terminal.)Yep, it was just a nicely laid out invitation.Some days it does not pay to be an overly paranoid professional computer toucher.(But come on, who sends a PDF attachment and omits the crucial datum from the email body?!? :psyduck: )
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai6zeJMYRgUZj7goWu by gnomon@mastodon.social
       2024-04-18T11:39:04Z
       
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       Anyhow this is why I am not usually invited to parties