alphinex t1_j8swepz wrote on February 16, 2023 at 6:48 PM

Reply to comment by expertmysteryshopper in Is this mail from the REAL Apple? by Quick_Abbreviations4

XML can’t do anything more than HTML. What’s your point? There is literally no logic in HTML or XML.

Please just take the advice by u/Cool-Click1253 and me, seems like we are both web developers, maybe both with some decades of experience (but we can still be wrong). You cant gather sensitive informations (or any other) via XML or HTML (based upon XML btw…). HTML is only a HyperTextMarkupLanguage, no programming language. its only to describe the structure of the page which should get (mostly visible) rendered.

But still, you are right, that you shouldnt click the link in the first place, if it looks suspicious.

alphinex t1_j8ow3es wrote on February 15, 2023 at 10:03 PM

Reply to comment by expertmysteryshopper in Is this mail from the REAL Apple? by Quick_Abbreviations4

Ehem… with HTML only you can’t gather any informations. And with JavaScript, you can’t get that much as well.

I would assume, as long as you are not giving any informations by yourself, you are more or less safe on the web.

The only way to gather more informations not letting the user know about it, is using a vulnerable bug (one of that was getting fixed in iOS 16.3.1), but I don’t know how far you will even get with that.