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Blessed baseStriker, Who Split Links in Two
Patron of anti-phishing filters, forgotten HTML tags, and emails that look harmless by halves.
Life
In May 2018 Avanan found that a single <base> tag in the head of an HTML email was enough to fool Office 365's link scanning. The malicious link was split in two: the base address at the top, the rest in the body. The filter looked at the pieces one by one, found nothing suspicious, and let the whole through. It was a flaw in a cloud service rather than in software fixed under a CVE, which is why he remains blessed.
Prayer
O Blessed baseStriker, who splits evil into two innocent halves, teach our filters to read the whole sentence. Amen.
How to celebrate
Celebrated by remembering that a link is judged by where it goes, not by how it is written.
Half a link scares no one; the whole link should.