Microsoft Reads Your Skype Chat Messages

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @03:30AM from the but-they-don't-enjoy-them dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Microsoft server accesses URLs sent in Skype chat messages, even if they are HTTPS URLs and contain account information. A reader of Heise publications notified Heise Security (link to German website, Google translation). They replicated the observation by sending links via Skype, including one to a private file storage account, and found that these URLs are shortly after accessed from a Microsoft IP address. When confronted, Microsoft claimed that this is part of an effort to detect and filter spam and phishing URLs."

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Re:Damned if they do... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-14 03:41 · Score: 4, Funny

What does Skype have to do with ST:TOS?
Fishing URLs? by Alter_3d · 2013-05-14 03:42 · Score: 1, Funny

Damn you Microsoft, what is wrong with fishing?? after this probably hunting URLs will be frowned upon by skype
Re:Damned if they do... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-14 03:51 · Score: 0, Funny

You've been Scrroooooogled!!!!!!
"Fishing URLs" by wcrowe · 2013-05-14 04:12 · Score: 1, Funny

Here is an example of a fishing URL.

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