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 No.1022320>>1022476 >>1022556 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Doing jigsaw's (Google's) phishing test to see if it's any good to school the oldies in being safe on the interwebz

>implying

when one of their tests was for a scam email that looks legit except for the funky email address (google.support), but the link URL was for a real address so it seemed like a bad scam if it was meant to be a scam.

Still I said it was phishing, and then the test tells me:

>This is tricky, but the link is actually a redirect to something on “t i n y u r l . c o m”.

Ya what?

This is the literal link the "email" had:

< h t t p s : / / g o o g l e . c o m / a m p / t i n y u r l . c o m / y 7 u 8 e w l r

It can't be.

That's not how anything to do with the internet works. R-R-Right, /tech/?

So, here's the question: Has my mind just been blown and the internet is all wibbley-wobbley and nothing like I thought it was, or have jigsaw fugged-up their own bloody test which should have linked:

< h t t p s : / / g o o g l e . c o m . a m p . t i n y u r l . c o m / y 7 u 8 e w l r

If it REALLY is a redirect to t i n y u r l . c o m, then how does this shit work?

 No.1022327>>1022344 >>1022388 >>1022556

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nm, i figured it out:

ANSWER:

Google have made a massive url spoofing hole in their own network

WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS?!

I was going to delete the OP, and mods can bumplock this if they want, but now I see this crap exists I'm wondering whether /tech/ can think of a single good reason for Google to do this shi-?


 No.1022333>>1022371

Why bother wasting brainpower on anything Jewgle does? Probably some kind of scam to steal even more personal data.


 No.1022344

>>1022327

>implying the only active vol here can delete shitty threads like yours


 No.1022352>>1022644

I'm having a hard time even understanding what the fuck you're on about, so I'm just going to nod and smile.


 No.1022358


 No.1022371

>implying the mail came from google

>not even looking at the sender IP

If the sender IP isn't a google server, it's not from google.

Everyone can send emails with whatever email address or name they wish.

>>1022333

>actually believing it's google


 No.1022388>>1022644 >>1022679

>>1022327

No, this is a feature needed to make AMP (Accelerated Web Pages) work.


 No.1022476

>>1022320 (OP)

> t i n y u r l . c o m

< tinyurl domain

< zomg it's google


 No.1022545

>google amp is a redirector of sorts

>tinyurl is a link shrinker and another redirection occurs here

It's basically just some skid link.

They used several redirect links under links.


 No.1022556

>>1022320 (OP)

>>1022327

That url redirs to: h t t p s :/ / w w w . g o o g l e . c o m / u r l ? q = h t t p : / / t i n y ur l . c o m / y 7 u 8 e w l r, which looks like pic related

The test looks decent overall. I missed several of the questions, mostly because I didn't look very closely. I think this is the good lesson to teach people, to look very closely at the url before clicking. I don't get scared of opening pdfs because I use non botnet software to view them, but its probably good to teach people not to open random documents.


 No.1022644

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>>1022352

Thanks for your insightful input

>>1022388 (checked)

but also seems to be a great way to provide redirections without unaware n00b users knowing about it


 No.1022650

Its not a bug its a feature anon, kek.


 No.1022670

Why the fuck is this a thread? At this point I can only assume that all the low effort OPs going around are ironic shitposters that want to drag the quality of the board to ground zero.


 No.1022679

>>1022388

>AMP (Accelerated Web Pages)

Accelerated Web Pages

You had one job, anon...




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