MSN protocol filtering words

James Dunne james.jdunne at gmail.com
Sat Apr 8 23:56:46 PDT 2006


Tom wrote:
> John Reimer escribió:
> 
>> In article <e177l4$kgk$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Tom says...
>>
>>> S. Chancellor escribió:
>>>
>>>> On 2006-04-07 16:44:59 -0700, Tom <ihate at spam.com> said:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everybody. Sorry about the noise but I wish to know about your 
>>>>> opinions on the next.
>>>>>
>>>>>  From time to time, I use MSN protocol for communicating because, 
>>>>> at least here in Argentina, it's the most popular client for the 
>>>>> common of Argentine guys and girls. Not that I consider myself one 
>>>>> of them :P, but to be online with the most of my not-nerd friends, 
>>>>> I have no choice other than use the protocol.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe this isn't new to everybody, but it was for me today as it 
>>>>> can be to someone else.
>>>>>
>>>>> Today I've read some mail I receive daily from a mailing list of CS 
>>>>> Students of the University where I study (UBA), warning everyone of 
>>>>> a not-very-honest behavior of the MS people in what concerns to 
>>>>> their client/protocol "MSN Messenger". They do filter messages that 
>>>>> contain certain words, apparently from web pages that offers some 
>>>>> services which makes competition to them (I guess). I've made the 
>>>>> test myself with the word "subitufoto". This is a web page that 
>>>>> offers photo upload for free (www.subitufoto.com.ar). When the word 
>>>>> "subitufoto" appears in some message it is apparently sent but 
>>>>> currently not received by the other peer. I may be naive but this 
>>>>> can't be just a bug, can it?
>>>>> We never know what other words are being filtered/recorded/etc but 
>>>>> this sucks!
>>>>>
>>>>> This makes me distrust profoundly of MSN from now on (not in the 
>>>>> sense of confidentiality which it naturally lacks). I don't know if 
>>>>> this is something geographically dependent (i.e. only specific for 
>>>>> some countries or languages), but I've certainly tested it and it's 
>>>>> the bare and sad true.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know something on the subject?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Wow, that's some amazing spam.  Almost fooled me, although I didn't 
>>>> have any idea why he was posting his BS here.
>>>>
>>>> -S.
>>>>
>>> Are you serious? What kind of spam would that be? Not selling 
>>> anything. Don't be ridiculous please. Maybe I shouldn't had posted 
>>> here. Sorry, I was just looking if someone knew about that kind of 
>>> issues in MSN protocol.
>>>
>>> Tom;
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom... I imagine that your post would be appropriate for c++.chat.  
>> Can you try
>> posting there?
>>
>> Interesting about MSN, if it's true. I've never heard of that problem.
>>
>> -JJR
> 
> 
> As I said before, I shouldn't had posted here, sorry, thanks for the tip 
>  JJR. And yes, believe me, it's true (I've captured packets with 
> Ethereal and used GAIM as client and it's all the same).
> 
> Tom;

What's even more scary are the EULAs you agreed to while installing AIM 
and MSN messenger... go check them again sometime.

-- 
Regards,
James Dunne



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