# \[The Register\] Who wants dynamic dancing animations and code in their emails? Everyone! says Google **URL:** \ **Category:** george\ **Created:** [February 14, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426 "2018-02-14T10:34:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/ook/32/72_2.png) [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/1 "2018-02-14T10:34:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Having last year axed its scanning of Gmail messages after years of withering privacy criticism, Google has decided to court controversy again in this area. > > Now it is extending its much-loved Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) technology to email inboxes. > > In a blog post on Tuesday, Gmail product manager Aakash Sahney announced AMP for Email, which allows messages to be formatted and sent as an AMP document. [Link](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/13/google_amp_email/). ---
**Author:** ![Ook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/ook/32/72_2.png) [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/2 "2018-02-14T10:39:47Z")
Why? We don’t need fancy boobobs and thingamahs in our emails. Youngsters haven’t seen a PC getting pwned by emails plus it’ll be a great attack vector for cryptomining/cryptolocking. If the worst come to the worst, I’ll revert to using PINE in a virtual environment on a bare-bones Linux install. Or host my own email myself, or use somebody who’ll do it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Force10](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/force10/32/1550_2.png) [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/4 "2018-02-14T17:27:21Z")
Dear God, why? ---
**Author:** ![Rizak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/rizak/32/4190_2.png) [@Rizak](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Rizak)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/5 "2018-02-15T04:00:44Z")
Reverting to SquirrelMail reader now. ---
**Author:** ![Ook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/ook/32/72_2.png) [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 5:45am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/6 "2018-02-15T05:45:56Z")
Lucky you. I also want to get into the Info/OpSec field, but guess I’m too old now 🙂 Ah well. Going to be interesting going forward. Will discuss it with the Bossly Unit and formulate a company policy going forward. ---
**Author:** ![Ook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/ook/32/72_2.png) [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/7 "2018-02-15T05:46:23Z")
Wonder if Mr2/Ice is still a thing (email reader under OS/2) ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Ars](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/lee_ars/32/2338_2.png) [@Lee\_Ars](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Lee_Ars)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 4:37pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/10 "2018-02-15T16:37:47Z")
I want this like I want a fork jammed into my left eyeball. ---
**Author:** ![Ook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/ook/32/72_2.png) [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/11 "2018-02-16T07:06:48Z")
Load up enough animations and you’ll slow the recipient’s PC down to a crawl… By the by, is there any known exploits from GIF images, static or animated? I know you can embed a picture pointing to a certain website, and when that picture is accessed/opened, you can see it in the logs on the webserver hosting said image. I know of exploits via JPG etc… ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/13 "2018-02-16T15:07:54Z")
Oi, #notallmillennials! I wouldn’t touch Google services with a nine-mile bargepole. Their privacy statements on YouTube alone were enough for me to close my account and rely on bookmarking for favourite channels. I was on Google… Plus/Pages/Wave/Whatever for a couple months and I hated how every time I’d leave a comment or write a status, _boom_ adverts for those things would appear everywhere - _even if that comment was “I hate [whatever]”_. ---
**Author:** ![Woodman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/woodman/32/24_2.png) [@Woodman](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Woodman)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/14 "2018-02-16T16:56:36Z")
How long before we’re looking at actively manned anti hacking security like in movies in the 80’s and 90’s movies for normal people? Let me get my ICE slicing skills sharpened up and get my deck plugged in. ---
**Author:** ![Force10](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/force10/32/1550_2.png) [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/15 "2018-02-16T17:11:48Z")
Every time I open up Chrome at work it asks me if I want to sign in. No, Google. You already track enough of what I do online. I’ll make my own bookmarks. ---
**Author:** ![Force10](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/force10/32/1550_2.png) [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/16 "2018-02-16T17:12:14Z")
> [@Woodman](#): > > Let me get my ICE slicing skills sharpened up and get my deck plugged in. Plugged in? It’s all wireless now, chummer. ---
**Author:** ![balance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/balance/32/1888_2.png) [@balance](https://cog.discourse.group/u/balance)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/17 "2018-02-16T17:21:32Z")
I’ve heard Shadowrun has updated it so Deckers are part of the team, not playing their own slightly-related adventure off to one side… (I liked the way the Shadowrun PC games of the last few years did it, with ‘overlays’ for levels with Matrix or Astral info that can be accessed by appropriate characters. It’s game-friendly, if not realistic.But realistic would be less dramatic, and probably involve bribing/threatening a sysadmin or running a week-long project to get some megacorp wage slave to click on a ‘Punch the Monkey’ web ad that runs an exploit, and who wants to play that?) ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/18 "2018-02-16T17:27:35Z")
> [@Woodman](#): > > How long before we’re looking at actively manned anti hacking security like in movies in the 80’s and 90’s movies for normal people? Maybe not for normal people, but we have an OpSec team of five at our call centre already, up from one before $MegaTelCo took over. ---
**Author:** ![CryHavok](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/cryhavok/32/413_2.png) [@CryHavok](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CryHavok)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/19 "2018-02-16T20:12:44Z")
> [@Ook](#): > > I also want to get into the Info/OpSec field, but guess I’m too old now If you’re breathing, it’s not too late. Indeed, jumping from a system/network background to the likes of incident response, or investigations, isn’t _that_ hard to do. I know lots of folks who didn’t get into it until 30, 40, 50, and beyond. ---
**Author:** ![RoadRunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/roadrunner/32/63_2.png) [@RoadRunner](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RoadRunner)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/21 "2018-02-16T20:56:41Z")
Go Blue!!! ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/22 "2018-02-16T21:22:15Z")
But Red Team has Sarge! And Donut! … although Blue _does_ have Caboose. ---
**Author:** ![RoadRunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/roadrunner/32/63_2.png) [@RoadRunner](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RoadRunner)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/23 "2018-02-16T21:26:56Z")
Ya gotta love Sarge… “chupathingy” ---
**Author:** ![RoadRunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/roadrunner/32/63_2.png) [@RoadRunner](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RoadRunner)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 9:33pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/25 "2018-02-16T21:33:10Z")
“Sheeeeeilaaaaa” ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426/26 "2018-02-16T21:38:20Z")
Howwww I wish that Griff was deeeeead Put a bullet in his heeeaaad [Next page](https://cog.discourse.group/t/the-register-who-wants-dynamic-dancing-animations-and-code-in-their-emails-everyone-says-google/1426.md?page=2)