Comment by jacquesm
4 hours ago
Feel free! The easiest way to do this is white text on a white background on the last page of the document. If you want to do it on every page do it in the header or the footer. Font size '1' for bonus points ;)
4 hours ago
Feel free! The easiest way to do this is white text on a white background on the last page of the document. If you want to do it on every page do it in the header or the footer. Font size '1' for bonus points ;)
Now I'm curious: what was in the watermark that would trigger Outlook? (I'm having some fun speculating. My guess right now is a ye olde "bu¥ vi@gr@ ch33p!!!!" spam trigger.)
No, it was a bit more subtle than that but I'm definitely not going to post the secret sauce in an open forum. The trick is to trigger the filters in a way that they'll block the mail completely, not just spam trap it.
Aren’t you running a high risk of your own email or other cloud accounts getting flagged doing this? What if your email provider (‘s AI agent) had permanently banned your account?
Joining in on the speculation game: the EICAR string maybe?
Oh I didn't know about this thing, thanks for the discovery.
Amusingly Nathan For You did this in a humourous way back in 2014 (S02E06 - "Party Planner").
remember about aria-hidden or equivalent, otherwise you are making the text visible to screen reader users.
I have read many snide comments and personal ID numbers that way, mostly in public and public-ish documents.
Oh, that's funny. I don't mind people with screen readers reading it. The Venn diagram with 'people with screen readers' on one side and 'people that are about to break an embargo' must be an interesting subset.
AI often goes the screen reader route though..
Probably getting larger and larger with all the agentic workflows popping up as of late.
What's the benefit? It appears that the outlook rejection was unintended. So against llm processing?
The embargo was enforced. This slightly mitigates scenarios where someone accidentally sends a document via email while it is under embargo.