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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:-gasp- Slashdot, too! by Darren+Winsper · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Actually, it tends to be because Scunthorpe happens to contain the word "cunt".

  2. Re:-gasp- Slashdot, too! by KingSkippus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    For what it's worth, I got the joke. :-)