‘This risk is real and could be exploited by adversaries of the US,’ warned the Dutch whistleblower who discovered them.

  • RheingoldRiver@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    no kidding, that’s the kind of thing that after the first few times it happens, someone from product should flag this and build in a system with redundant checks if you want to send mail to .ml, like:

    1. The user has to have permission to send to .ml in the first place

    2. Any individual .ml address they want to send to has to be whitelisted in a separate UI from email compose (possibly excluding replies)

    3. Any time they send to .ml (or any external domain), the recipient box turns a different color, and there’s a notice, CURRENTLY SENDING TO AN EXTERNAL DOMAIN

      • with a list of all external domains included eg you could also be sending to a contractor
      • and a count of the domains
    4. Any .ml sent mail is auto delayed by a couple minutes and requires you to confirm you wanted to send it (again possibly excluding replies)

    I would hope there’s also some flags emails can have for whatever sensitive info levels, these should also come with automatic client-side and server-side validation that you’re not sending them to someone who you shouldn’t.