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BeetleB on May 29, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should Failing Phish Tests Be a Fireable Offense?

>At the very least you're giving away everything your browser (even Lynx) puts in the headers of a request.

Which you're giving away any time you browse any external web site.

>Lynx supports cookies too so it would be possible to track a user between sessions.

You're downloading cookies for most external web sites.

If the worst you do is the same as going to espn.com, then reprimand people for going to any external web site.

onion2k on May 30, 2019 [–]

The point is that you're giving data to a known phishing site by visiting the link in a phishing email. It's true that ESPN might also be a phishing site but it's less likely.

BeetleB on May 30, 2019 | [–]

And my point is the data you're giving is not important.

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