Showing posts with label time travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time travel. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Time to play "Google Widget or Time Machine?"

Was browsing through a shared Google Drive to review some client materials (spoiler: none of those materials are posted here).

I was prompted to open a video file with an third-party app.

Seems legit, right?



Click on it and then the following web page appeared...


First thought: Wow, someone thought that designing a dos-based modal dialog was a great thing to do in the year of our lord, 2021.

Second thought: This is probably the easiest way to give a Russian Bot Farm access to all my personal and business data.

I plan to fax this third party developer with my questions...

PS -- I'm back to blogging. Will migrate to a more modern site at some point this summer. Not that there's anything wrong with Blogger... Just seems like I should get pager alerts when someone comments on a post.