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Skype is censoring links to dx.com
After sending message with link it appears for 1/10s at responders chat.
- gear54rus 12y agoSeeing the same here. Windows 64bit. All this talk about Micro$oft becoming 'better' is easy to forget right now.
- Piskvorrr 12y ago"Better" should always have you asking "for whom?"
- gear54rus 12y agoIn the context of the recent HN 'talks', 'better' would mean that it finally adopts more open policies and starts acting with dignity for once. Shit that is being pulled with skype cannot be categorized as such, obviously. Edit: I also love that the top comment attributes this to some 'non-malicious' blacklist completely ignoring the fact that they have no goddamn business in my communications and should not even see them let alone modify.
- htor 12y agoI'm not surprised. As is well known, Microsoft deliberately removed the encryption from Skype, making it just another insecure platform for communicating and vulnerable to censorship.
- brador 12y agoIt is not a corporations job to ensure your freedoms. It is yours.
- jozan 12y agoSkype encrypts its Skype-to-Skype traffic according to their FAQ. https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA31/does-skype-use-encryption https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA31/does-skype-use-encrypt...
- Canada 12y agoAll lies. Microsoft has all clear text. Make up a new, random https URL. Something no one knows and no one would accidently hit. Message it to someone on Skype. Wait 5 minutes to see a bot from Microsoft hit your URL.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoWell thats disturbing.
- cturhan 12y agoAnyone tried that?
- fragmede 12y agoWhat is your alternative proposal to prevent malware from propagating via Skype?
- woodman 12y agoDon't? This is the wrong layer to apply the fix. Also, this method of spidering/cataloging would only prevent the most naively implemented worm from propagating.
- drethemadrapper 12y agoHere is it - https://defuse.ca/microsoft-reads-your-skype-messages.htm https://defuse.ca/microsoft-reads-your-skype-messages.htm And another thing that worries me is if video chats between two Skype users do/can fall on the wrong hands. Could the video files be pushed to some of those porn websites out there as adult videos XXX????
- troels 12y agoWhat would be MS' particular beef with dx.com?
- smt88 12y agoThis could easily be an automated spam/scam blacklist, rather than anything intentional or malicious. Google blacklisted dx.com a few years ago: http://club.dx.com/forums/forums.dx/threadid.1186593?page=2 http://club.dx.com/forums/forums.dx/threadid.1186593?page=2
- StavrosK 12y agoWhy would they blacklist DX? I use it all the time and my experience has been great.
- smt88 12y agoBlacklisting on a network like Skype is going to be mostly automated. Anything automated will have bugs. I'm not saying I know what's happening for sure, but it's likely that Skype has automated security, possible that dx.com was added to it, and possible that it was accidental.
- matthewmacleod 12y agoSites get blacklisted all of the time, IME typically due to malware being present in advertising or promos. I'm almost 100% sure that this filtering will have taken place because something malicious has been observed on dx.com.
- themoogle 12y agoanyone have a example of this or any proof?