Re: urldefense.us URLs? (was: New Git mirror for the SNL-Sequencer (code and docs))

[NICOLE Remi via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Ironically enough, when you send plaintext emails, the links do not
seem to get modified.

For testing: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://github.com/epics-modules/sequencer/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!e_Td8IpAMPYDiiF5BN-NKMkoxYXst8SzSDcNOEssy4dB8EpLKkijC19xzPRWmevuwnbBYI36QpALz3zETaNnohWcRw$ 
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Rémi NICOLE <remi.nicole at cea.fr>
CEA/DRF/IRFU/DIS/LDISC

On Tue, 2024-03-05 at 07:37 +0100, Gerrit Kühn via Tech-talk wrote:
> Am Mon, 4 Mar 2024 17:43:43 +0000
> schrieb "Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>:
> 
> > The uldefense URL wrappers are now being added to all messages sent
> > to
> > the tech-talk at aps.anl.gov list from outside of Argonne. I have no
> > control over them, that's due to a recent DOE mandate and not
> > something
> > that the Argonne security people are at liberty to remove AFAIK.
> 
> Ironically, these links turn out to be pretty much unusable without
> further
> processing for me. When looking at the plaintext with my mailclient,
> the
> links to not work as the trailing "$" is not recognised as part of
> the
> link. So I end up at https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://urldefense.us/jerror__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!e_Td8IpAMPYDiiF5BN-NKMkoxYXst8SzSDcNOEssy4dB8EpLKkijC19xzPRWmevuwnbBYI36QpALz3zETaNCAZvjPQ$  when clicking them.
> 
> Using html view instead, I can see the correct link targets, but when
> clicking them I get a phishing warning from the mailclient as they
> don't
> lead to the location they advertise.
> 
> So in either case, I need to manually copy, edit, confirm... is this
> supposed to be a security improvement?
> 
> 
> cu
>   Gerrit