Google is not transparent about it.
It started doing this with Gmail too. It didn't ask my permission. It
didn't tell me what it was doing. If you click on a link from within
one of your own personal emails, it opens via a Google redirect. Yes,
Google already handles your mail. But you trust it
Welcome to what Gilles Deleuze called les sociétés de contrôle
https://files.nyu.edu/dnm232/public/deleuze_postcript.pdf
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIus7lm_ZK0
BTW, as you can see, Youtube (also owned by Google) carries a message
decoding it.. Ergo, they don't care. It's not you - just your
Pranesh Prakash:
I noticed recently that (all?) URLs sent via Google Hangouts
automatically get replaced by a Google URL redirection (the way their
search results do if you're logged in).
That's not limited to when you're logged in. And Google is not
transparent about it, in fact they
I noticed recently that (all?) URLs sent via Google Hangouts
automatically get replaced by a Google URL redirection (the way their
search results do if you're logged in).
I've not seen any documentation of this on Google's help pages, though.
Sure, Google Hangouts doesn't sell itself on its
Skype isn't transparent about it - you include a link in a chat and it
looks normal and the people who click on it go directly to the URL
provided. But Microsoft later visits it surreptitiously, despite the
claims that nobody can read your content.
Google is transparent about it - you include a
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On 05/18/2013 06:43 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
First: thanks for the followup/information/analysis. Most
helpful.
To follow up on what I'd mentioned as possible further things to test,
yes it does follow redirects (but sadly does not follow looped
On 05/17/13 12:31, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
...
And incidentally, the proffered rationale for this doesn't fly, given
that (a) they're only sending HEAD: actually scanning destination URLs
for malware et.al. would require fetching the whole page and (b) they're
only retrieving HTTPS URLs (per Heise)
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:14:19PM +0530, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
Heise Security is reporting that Microsoft accesses links sent over
Skype chat.[1]
Everyone who thinks that's the *only* thing that Microsoft is quietly
doing behind everyone's back, raise your hand.
And incidentally, the
On 05/17/2013 07:31 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:14:19PM +0530, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
Heise Security is reporting that Microsoft accesses links sent over
Skype chat.[1]
Everyone who thinks that's the *only* thing that Microsoft is quietly
doing behind everyone's
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.org wrote:
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
I understand that the Skype traffic IS encrypted. The problem is that
Skype itself (and now, Microsoft) holds the key, not the conversants..
Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato,
Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes
a...@acm.org
+1 (817) 271-9619
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Eduardo Robles
..on Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:04:11AM -0500, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
wrote:
I understand that the Skype traffic IS encrypted. The problem is that
Skype itself (and now, Microsoft) holds the key, not the conversants..
Yes, this is correct. There's a good lesson here in encryption, key
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On 14/05/13 17:08, Julian Oliver wrote:
..on Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:04:11AM -0500, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco
Sanfuentes wrote:
I understand that the Skype traffic IS encrypted. The problem is
that Skype itself (and now, Microsoft) holds the key,
On 14-05-13 18:08, Julian Oliver wrote:
..on Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:04:11AM -0500, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
wrote:
I understand that the Skype traffic IS encrypted. The problem is that
Skype itself (and now, Microsoft) holds the key, not the conversants..
Yes, this is correct.
Tested it, got the following:
HEAD /this_is_a_test2.html HTTP/1.1 from 65.52.100.214 with no User Agent.
-tom
On 14 May 2013 11:44, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.org wrote:
Heise Security is reporting that Microsoft accesses links sent over Skype
chat.[1]
Here is the /. lede:
A
Also, it came about two hours after I sent the link to a friend.
-tom
On 14 May 2013 14:39, Tom Ritter t...@ritter.vg wrote:
Tested it, got the following:
HEAD /this_is_a_test2.html HTTP/1.1 from 65.52.100.214 with no User Agent.
-tom
On 14 May 2013 11:44, Pranesh Prakash
Anyone try searching for private links in bing yet?
Sent from my iPad
On May 14, 2013, at 14:41, Tom Ritter t...@ritter.vg wrote:
Also, it came about two hours after I sent the link to a friend.
-tom
On 14 May 2013 14:39, Tom Ritter t...@ritter.vg wrote:
Tested it, got the following:
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