In 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.
As is well known, Microsoft deliberately removed the encryption from Skype, making it just another insecure platform for communicating and vulnerable to censorship.
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.
Don'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.
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????
> All Skype-to-Skype voice, video, file transfers and instant messages are encrypted.
> For instant messages, we use TLS (transport-level security) to encrypt your messages between your Skype client and the chat service in our cloud [...]
As expected, it's just network-level encryption, not end-to-end encryption.
Blacklisting 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.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 62.0 ms ] threadAll this talk about Micro$oft becoming 'better' is easy to forget right now.
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.
As is well known, Microsoft deliberately removed the encryption from Skype, making it just another insecure platform for communicating and vulnerable to censorship.
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA31/does-skype-use-encrypt...
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.
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????
> For instant messages, we use TLS (transport-level security) to encrypt your messages between your Skype client and the chat service in our cloud [...]
As expected, it's just network-level encryption, not end-to-end encryption.
Google blacklisted dx.com a few years ago: http://club.dx.com/forums/forums.dx/threadid.1186593?page=2
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.
I'm almost 100% sure that this filtering will have taken place because something malicious has been observed on dx.com.