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Websockets are used for nefarious purposes?
by mediocrejoker 9y ago
Websockets are used for nefarious purposes?
- joosters 9y agoSo is HTTP. Better disable that too.
- twic 9y agoI use them for nefarious purposes. But then i use everything for nefarious purposes.
- ricree 9y agoPlease remember to set the evil bit properly when you do.
- qwerty456127 9y agoWebsockets can be used for many things and are actually a sound tech idea but I don't know about a single website that would use them to do something I need (no, I don't use social networks, don't play online games and don't use web voip - these are the 3 major areas that can make use of them) so disabling them seems a good idea. In general: disable everything you don't use - this will most certainly increase your safety and disrupt a huge portion of mainstream malware and spyware functioning. When I was using Windows I had a software firewall that would ask me about every app that is trying to access the Internet and let me choose if I want to block or allow it - I would only allow the web browser, the messenger and the SSH client and completely block everything else (DroidWall and XPrivacy let you do this on Android, LittleSnitch does this on Mac, I miss such a tool on destkop GNU/Linux a huge lot).
- geezerjay 9y ago> Websockets are used for nefarious purposes? Websockets were created sedcifically to get clients to transfer data to the server at the request of the server and without the user specifically wanting to send it.
- duskwuff 9y agoThat's a rather odd way of describing Websockets. XMLHttpRequest fits your description equally well. Websockets don't inherently allow anything that isn't possible with other technologies. What they do is make certain data transfer patterns more efficient by removing the need for polling, or for redundant HTTP requests.