I’ve just talked to a few consultants tonight and they’ve told me of a few times when they would type “fuck you” or some such negative thing under their email signature and then change the text to white fill. If people discovered this inter company or from an outside consultant isn’t there a veritable fuck ton of contractual ethics violations going on?
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>I’ve just talked to a few consultants tonight and they’ve told me of a few times when they would type “fuck you” or some such negative thing under their email signature and then change the text to white fill. If people discovered this inter company or from an outside consultant isn’t there a veritable fuck ton of contractual ethics violations going on?
That depends on their contracts, of course!
Either way it’s not a smart move. It doesn’t achieve anything and it doesn’t even have to be “discovered” in the sense that there would have to be any active effort to be expended or suspicions to be present in order for it to backfire.
Any email client with HTML disabled will simply display all the text, no formatting, no colors. And the sender does not control which client the receiver uses.
It’s interesting that they don’t get caught. Because changing the color isn’t going to prevent a user’s “search” feature from finding that text if they search for it.
It’s childish, cowardly and could have consequences.
Note that the same principle is used for email tracking: an “invisible” 1×1 white pixel is embedded and when the recipient opens the message the sender gets an alert with a timestamp of the read (and sometimes more like machine/phone used, geolocation, opening of attachments, &c.).
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