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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