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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Great. and if Proof
point gets bought and killed, my next question is then what?</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Stephanie Perrin</font></font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2017-02-15 12:23, Ayden Férdeline
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<div>Greetings, all-<br>
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I have received a message from ICANN staff regarding the
lifespan of access to masked hyperlinks. I have copied and
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<div><i>hi - i heard back from the security team - Great
question!There is a long answer and a short answer.In short,
the links will always work as long as Proofpoint is still a
company J.The long answer is once the URL is re-written it
will always be re-written. For example, if you forward an
email to another company that does not own proofpoint but that
email you sent has a proofpoint re-written link, they can
still open it. It will always re-direct to the proofpoint
servers and then to the final destination. If for some reason
you leave proofpoint, those links will still work just so long
as Proofpoint is still a company.Hope this answers your
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<div>Ayden Férdeline<br>
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<div>Subject: External links & archives<br>
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<div>Local Time: 2 February 2017 12:43 PM<br>
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<div>UTC Time: 2 February 2017 12:43<br>
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<div>From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:icann@ferdeline.com">icann@ferdeline.com</a><br>
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<div>To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu">NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu"><NCSG-DISCUSS@listserv.syr.edu></a><br>
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<div>I really dislike this masking of hyperlinks when we receive
an email from ICANN staff now. When I read email archives, I
can't see the real URL to ascertain at a glance what I am
really clicking on, and must trust it will take me to the
ICANN website. I rarely click on every hyperlink in an email,
as I can see from the URL whether it is an announcement, a
PDF, taking me to the wiki, or somewhere else. Now I am often
left to click all the links to try to find the relevant
material. This is a but a small inconvenience, and not my
biggest concern. What I worry about is how we archive these
links. In five or ten years time, will
"urldefense.proofpoint.com" plus the string of 200 or so
random characters still redirect to the linked content? We
don't need these third party redirects, it does not make us
any safer, and it feels very much us vs. them. Is it possible
that we can get some meaningful assurances from ICANN staff
that these masked links will redirect to the correct URLs in
perpetuity? Thanks<br>
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