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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. Just tried it... by Gordonjcp · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ... and sure enough, the strings mentioned in the article get blocked. Gaim returns "Message could not be sent because a connection error occurred:" and the offending message.

  2. Re:-gasp- Slashdot, too! by jandrese · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Scun is no bad word that I've ever heard of, but if you move your observation one letter to the right I think you'll find the problem.

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

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

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

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