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Am I the only one seeing the background check of urls on IMs a good thing ? Those fake https fishing sites spread by a skype worm could really harm people. Gran
by gbin 13y ago
Am I the only one seeing the background check of urls on IMs a good thing ? Those fake https fishing sites spread by a skype worm could really harm people.
Granted that they could do it like in chrome safe browsing feature without sending the actual url but a hash of it.
- jdp23 13y agoIt's a positive thing from an anti-phishing and anti-spam perspective. It's a negative thing from a surveillance perspective. Any government with at least some jurisdiction over Microsoft can request this information under their legal processes. As you point out, there are ways to get the positive aspects while diminishing the negative. Hopefully MS will evolve the implementation.
- Miner49er 13y agoIt's okay, but including to the ajc article, Microsoft only checks https links - not http. If they were truly checking for phishing you think they would check all links.