[LLVMdev] LLD improvement plan

Reid Kleckner rnk at google.com
Wed May 27 09:56:23 PDT 2015


I think I found the problem:
https://opia.illinois.edu/content/targeted-attack-protection-tuning

UIUC is apparently rewriting HTML links in emails to redirect through
urldefense.proofpoint.com. This is visible in my version of Rui's email.

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote:

> I sent the mail from Gmail. I checked the source using the Gmail "show
> original" mode (which displays a mail in plain text including headers and
> all MIME sections) from a different computer, but I cannot find that URL. I
> cannot check an email copy that the mailing list server sent back because
> Gmail automatically de-dup emails, which is annoying, but I think it's
> unlikely that my machine is infected from evidences I've seen so far. Maybe
> a mail transfer agent in between Gmail to you inserted the link? I'd
> appreciate if you can forward the mail including headers to me.
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:12 AM, David Chisnall <
> David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 27 May 2015, at 16:49, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > David,
>> >
>> > The link works fine with my Mac and Android. The source of the mail
>> looks okay to me (I verified that from a different machine than the one I
>> sent the mail). You may want to check your browser or proxy?
>>
>> It’s correct in the plain-text version of the mail.  The HTML MIME part
>> contains this:
>>
>> <a href=3D"https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp-3A__reviews=
>>
>> .llvm.org_D10036&d=3DAwMFaQ&c=3D8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=3DMfk2qtn1LTDThVkh=
>>
>> 6-oGglNfMADXfJdty4_bhmuhMHA&m=3D8dYF1obzqNfZvfOxlk7H-g8VUfu1ZyS0GdcCWRkWxCk=
>> &s=3DRu6670O4y8SpAwlp17gVmI7BLz3mIY7gs1Irvo9iDRw&e=3D">
>> http://reviews.llvm.
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__reviews.llvm.&d=AwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=Mfk2qtn1LTDThVkh6-oGglNfMADXfJdty4_bhmuhMHA&m=UxTA9_ALGj6dP9lASAs-vE6FoBX_s9ZbD803t-a4XQA&s=Ubr9G2mEli5qzBQAq5lmtafexJu4OZ_lw4HIpfG_QKM&e=>
>> =
>> org/D10036</a>
>>
>> Apparently they’re not malicious, but I find it somewhat unnerving when
>> the URL that I click on turns out not to be the one that the mouseover text
>> pops up.  If you feel the need to insert a redirection link, I’d very much
>> appreciate it if you would post the full link in the text version, as well
>> as the href.  If, on the other hand, you are unaware that your computer is
>> doing this, then I would encourage you to work out what it is and that it
>> is not malicious.
>>
>> The archives only include the plain text version, not the HTML copy, so
>> will not see this.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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