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Why is everybody so worried that Skype is visiting URLs you posted in their chat box? They're probably just checking them for Malware was my first thought and
by GigabyteCoin 13y ago
Why is everybody so worried that Skype is visiting URLs you posted in their chat box?
They're probably just checking them for Malware was my first thought and is still my only.
- DannyBee 13y agoBecause they are sending urls you type in back to MS and MS is storing them? They also claim it's a secure communciations platform. If it was actually secure, why would microsoft be able to see it?
- DannyBee 13y agoBecause they are sending urls you type in back to MS and MS is storing them? They also claim it's a secure communciations platform. If it was actually secure, why would microsoft be able to see it?
- jlgreco 13y agoThe concern is more that they are even able to.
- pyre 13y agoIf the URL is scraped from the message as it passes through Microsoft's servers, then Microsoft's servers have direct access to your chat text (i.e. not an encrypted channel from client-to-client). If the URL is sent from the receiving client to Microsoft for analysis, then Microsoft has a list of all URLs that have been communicated to you via Skype. Either of these scenarios chips away at / tears down the idea that Skype is a 'secure' communications platform.