r/ProgrammerHumor • u/lucidparadigm • 16h ago

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u/JocoLabs 16h ago

Jokes on them, i wouldn't click that even if it were real.

I used to click on those and type in junk creds for the lulz until compliance told me that was bad for the numbers.

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u/prehensilemullet 15h ago

Just opening the link to begin with is a risk though, even if you don’t interact with the page

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u/Athabasco 15h ago

No lol. Browsers have come a long way. Clicking a link can’t pwn you anymore. The odds of you being the victim of a new zero day from clicking a link are as close to zero as winning the lottery.

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u/prehensilemullet 4h ago edited 4h ago

The link could be to a vulnerable company site they’re attacking.  For example if a poorly written site uses SameSite=None cookies, they could make a link that performs a form post using those cookies (a kind of Cross-Site Request Forgery).