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by RajT88 1129 days ago
Lots of mail clients and messaging apps detect domains and helpfully turn them into clickable links. None of the ones I use for work are doing this for .mov or .zip (yet), but I'm sure something will at some point and it will become a target for phishing.

> Windows has hidden file extensions by default now for decades.

Thankfully this is easy to turn off. I hate it, and it makes me mad for a few seconds each time I get a new machine/OS install.