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Comment by _nalply

3 years ago

This is a bit dangerous because of zero-days. If you do this in a throw-away isolated virtual machine, this is probably safe.

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efdee  3 years ago

Very much true. It's almost always a specific type of phishing that tries to get me to enter bank credentials, usually not really serving malware. But you make a good point.

qup  3 years ago

Fun times when you have to use "probably" there to be accurate.

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