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There are quite a few reasons I can think of: * Privacy * Performance * They would likely have to work with Virus Total to support their infrastructure as I
by laumars 8y ago
There are quite a few reasons I can think of:
* Privacy
* Performance
* They would likely have to work with Virus Total to support their infrastructure as I can only imagine how quickly they'd take such a cloud service offline if everyone started using it by default
* And then what happens if / when the cloud service does have an outage? Does that mean people are blocked from downloading things?
* Same question for people on a corporate network who might have Virus Total blocked
* Same question for people on poorer internet connections as now the user has to transfer twice as much data if it's not a hash already stored on Virus Total.
That all said, its a cool idea for a third party browser add-on (if it hasn't already been done?)
- mc32 8y agoThose are good things to think about, but I'll give them a stab: _Privacy: They [FF] can act as anonymous proxy. _Perf: Yes, for new objects, but for known objects, it should be minimal. _Service outage: Build a system which can allow an override (download at your own peril, while service is out) _Corp should already have enterprisey systems in place _New, unknown object: Yes an issue. As someone else said [GlitchMr], if they can do it ala haveibeenpowned I think it's worth looking into.