From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 7/1/24 12:02 PM, David Langford wrote:   
   > EDITORIAL. Being routinely paranoid about links that don't go where   
   > claimed, I was a little slow to vote in 2026 Worldcon site selection. The   
   > email from the voting subcontractor ElectionBuddy Inc shows the URL as   
   > 'secure.electionbuddy.com/' followed by the promised 19-character voter ID   
   > -- but hovering over the link reveals it as 'go.electionbuddy.com/' plus   
   > some 200 characters of alphanumerical gibberish. No doubt there are vitally   
   > important security reasons for this....   
      
   This is a universal problem with mailing list services these days. They   
   include an image element just so the sender will be pinged every time   
   someone opens a message. The links all contain personalized tracking   
   information. In many cases they don't even go to the alleged   
   destination, but to a URL that may, if it feels like it, redirect you   
   there after sucking out all the personalized information, or could take   
   you somewhere else for all you know.   
      
   --   
   Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com   
      
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