Clickable Links - Revision history

Lori at 18:14, 24 April 2020

2020-04-24T18:14:14Z

Lori: Lori moved page Mobile Password Safe - Clickable Links to Clickable Links

2020-04-20T19:01:53Z

Lori moved page Mobile Password Safe - Clickable Links to Clickable Links

Lori at 17:11, 20 April 2020

2020-04-20T17:11:07Z

Lori at 17:10, 20 April 2020

2020-04-20T17:10:42Z

Lori at 21:16, 15 April 2020

2020-04-15T21:16:14Z

Lori at 21:14, 15 April 2020

2020-04-15T21:14:33Z

Lori: Create Mobile Password Safe Clickable Links page

2020-04-15T21:10:12Z

Create Mobile Password Safe Clickable Links page

Lori: Created page with "= Clickable Links and their security implications = '''Security''' Despite the fact that all of your passwords are encrypted on your mobile password safe home page, we still..."

2020-04-15T20:26:00Z

Created page with "= Clickable Links and their security implications = '''Security''' Despite the fact that all of your passwords are encrypted on your mobile password safe home page, we still..."

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= Clickable Links and their security implications =

'''Security'''

Despite the fact that all of your passwords are encrypted on your
mobile password safe home page, we still don't want to make it easy for
others to get the URL. Whenever you link from one web site to another,
a [http://wiki.marketruler.com/Referrer?_cr=web|pw.ex.to|clickable-links Referrer] is passed to the next web site. <br/>
This means that the sites we link to would know your '''Mobile Password Safe URL''', and '''we don't want that.''' <br/>
There is a way to do this which we've implemented on the home
page to link to the "Hunch" site.</br>
<q>(It uses a "redirector" which
takes you to another generic page, which then redirects to the Hunch
site. Hunch only sees the generic page, not your password home page.)</q>

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-= Clickable Links and their security implications =
+=== Security Implications ===
 Despite the fact that all of your passwords are encrypted on your
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 '''We could turn off our server logs''' , but it makes it difficult to run our service at all because it '''does'''  hold important diagnostic information.
-==== Spam ====
+=== Spam ===
 Once we have a "redirector" page, it means that spammers can use it to hide in their spam emails to avoid spam filters. Instead of sending you to:
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 Since we don't want our domain name to be blacklisted by anti-spam companies, and we don't want to do anything to help spammers (in the ''least'') then it becomes difficult to allow just our users to use the outbound links.
-==== Our solution ====
+=== Our solution ===
 Our solution uses [http://wiki.marketruler.com/JavaScript JavaScript]  so the URL you visit is hidden from our servers (it only exists in your browser), and a redirect page which hides your home page URL from other sites.
-==== How to test it ====
+=== How to test it ===
 We offer an easy way to test the referrer security:

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	#View the referrer that the web server "sees"		#View the referrer that the web server "sees"

−	[[Category:~~Name~~]]	+	[[Category:Mobile Password Safe]]

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	#Click on the link in the password entry		#Click on the link in the password entry
	#View the referrer that the web server "sees"		#View the referrer that the web server "sees"
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		+	[[Category:Name]]

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 Once we have a "redirector" page, it means that spammers can use it to hide in their spam emails to avoid spam filters. Instead of sending you to:
-*http://www.viagra-buy-drugs-online.com/
+*<nowiki>http://www.viagra-buy-drugs-online.com/</nowiki>
 They send you to (for example):
-*http://pw.ex.to/out/?u=http://www.viagra-buy-drugs-online.com/
+*<nowiki>http://pw.ex.to/out/?u=http://www.viagra-buy-drugs-online.com/</nowiki>
 Spam filters look at the pw.ex.to part, not the u= part, so we would be blacklisted.<br/>

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 others to get the URL. Whenever you link from one web site to another,
 a [http://wiki.marketruler.com/Referrer?_cr=web|pw.ex.to|clickable-links Referrer] is passed to the next web site. <br/>
 This means that the sites we link to would know your '''Mobile Password Safe URL''', and '''we don't want that.''' <br/>
 There is a way to do this which we've implemented on the home
 page to link to the "Hunch" site.<br/>
-<blockquote>(It uses a "redirector" which takes you to another generic page, which then redirects to the Hunch site. Hunch only sees the generic page, not your password home page.)</blockquote><br/>
 Secondarily, '''we don't also want to know which sites you're visiting.'''<br/>