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MSN Censors Your IM

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-for-your-own-good dept.

Jamie ran across a story about censorship on MSN. Essentially, a number of suspicious strings result in silent failure of delivery. The strings are unsurprisingly things like .scr and .info. They've started maintaining a list if you're interested. Personally, I'd rather they fix the vulnerabilities that make those strings dangerous in the first place: it's not like IM is the only place a URL can get on your machine.

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  1. Re:Blocked firefox.exe by lattyware · · Score: 5, Funny

    An inept IT department?
    OMFG!
    Someone alert the world press!

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  2. Re:-gasp- Slashdot, too! by glitch23 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, the northern Uk town of Scunthorpe has been affected by this problem for some time now. I think a "Scun" must be a rude word in American English or something.

    No, it's "Thor". We don't like Scandinavians.

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