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by froindt 2257 days ago
>G Suite has implemented recently an option that lets you email sensitive content with a timer. The user receives the email and no content is in the email, instead a link is shown, and the content will be deleted after some kind of triggers (e.g. after X minutes, or after having been read once)

I knew that capability existed, and it sounds like a great avenue for phishing. People who routinely receive highly sensitive messages like that are going to be more apt to open a link than my mom, who is aware of phishing and whose spidey senses would be tingling.

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The Office 365 one (at least, for a long time) looked just about like a phishing message because it was an email from Microsoft asking you to click on a link. Especially if Outlook blocked the images (as it does by default).