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Can't someone just analyze the Bing toolbar binary and figure out what's actually going on here?

• _flag 16y ago
  The Bing toolbar only sends information back to Microsoft, it doesn't decide what to do with it. For this kind of a task it would be simpler to use a packet sniffer anyway.
  • storborg 16y ago
    Thanks for the clarification. Does the toolbar send a notification to Microsoft on every click? Or only clicks on Google SERPs?
• user24 16y ago
  The data's sent back via SSL, from what I've read, and disassembling is not going to be practical.
  • amalcon 16y ago
    On the other hand, if it uses the OS HTTPS infrastructure, someone could probably add a root cert to IE and "MitM" themselves. If it doesn't, it's just a matter of finding and replacing the key; while that's not completely straightforward, it is done. Darn, now it's really tempting to fire up some VMs. I don't have time for that.