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The key point here is that the links are scanned by a 3rd party who are not related to Facebook (as far as we know).
by guava 11y ago
The key point here is that the links are scanned by a 3rd party who are not related to Facebook (as far as we know).
- onion2k 11y agoThey could be intercepting the traffic anywhere between the author's network and Facebook though, not necessarily with any complicity on the part Facebook.
- psykovsky 11y agoWhat about SSL? Doesn't facebook use it?
- jcrawfordor 11y agoThe third-party does threat intelligence... I don't see how it's unreasonable to think that Facebook has hired them to perform malware/scam detection on links sent through chat. Given Facebook's policy, someone has to do it.