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MS are in your Skype, reading your passwords.
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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"Microsoft made use of both the login information and the specially created URL"So someone or something at Microsoft is reading and acting upon the information contained in private Skype messages. You should assume this every time you use the service. Just because the EULA says they can, doesn't mean you expect them to actually do it... http://www.h-online.com/security/news/i ... 62870.htmlAgain, not sure if this is News or Internet or Gadget or Meeting Place material, but I'll leave it here this time.
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Wed May 15, 2013 2:38 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Time for a new entrant to internet calls.
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Wed May 15, 2013 5:37 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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I only use Skype for video calls.
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Wed May 15, 2013 5:42 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Same here normally, though I have not used it for ages.
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Wed May 15, 2013 6:11 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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For online messages I use either email or whatsapp. Pity they don't do a windows desktop version.
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Wed May 15, 2013 6:56 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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I must admit to using Apple messages more than anything else right now.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk.
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Wed May 15, 2013 7:11 pm |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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Hmm, they have only published about a fifth of the original German article...
Microsoft says that the NetFilter servers scan the URL for malware. Nobody reads them and, allegedly, they don't download any data, they just look to see if it is a fishing site.
"Fishing sites don't usually use https," is different to a lot of reports over the last several months from heise themselves, where they have been using spoofed certifcates from legitimate certificate issuing agencies that had been hacked...
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Thu May 16, 2013 4:04 am |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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So are they only scanning messages that contain URL's?
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Thu May 16, 2013 7:28 am |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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They scan all Messages for URLs and if they find one, they check the URL and if it contains malware, it is added to the list. If the link has already been scanned, then the link will be removed from the message, or the user will be warned, I would think, I haven't received a link over Skype for a few years...
_________________ "Do you know what this is? Hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that vacant look in your eyes, which says hold my head to your ear, you will hear the sea!" - Londo Molari
Executive Producer No Agenda Show 246
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Thu May 16, 2013 8:32 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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In which case the scanning of URL's is merely a precaution for its customers. While it is not pleasant to hear of it, I am going to criticise Microsoft particularly for this. It stops the spread of malware.
_________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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Fri May 17, 2013 6:21 pm |
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