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kro • today at 12:30 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

If they or their company use email "security" software that "scans" all links it's not necessarily the users fault / they don't in fact click. The mail is auto-confirmed the second it hits the inbox.

We've had to change our registration confirmation mails too recently to not confirm on GET only, but with another form - in hindsight it was stupid before but many services do that.


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weird-eye-issue • today at 2:22 PM

> We've had to change our registration confirmation mails too recently to not confirm on GET only, but with another form - in hindsight it was stupid before but many services do that.

This has been a thing since forever lol

dpark • today at 2:37 PM

Security software fetching links will not trigger this behavior. It needs to be done in the context of the actual ChatGPT user so that a JavaScript payload can run.

If merely GET on the link was sufficient to trigger the behaviors, the adversary generating the link would just GET it themselves.

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gokulravi992 • today at 12:38 PM

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