MSN Censors Your IM 287
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.
Blocked firefox.exe (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Blocked firefox.exe (Score:5, Funny)
OMFG!
Someone alert the world press!
Re:-gasp- Slashdot, too! (Score:5, Funny)
I play City of Heroes, and for some weird reason, it blocks the word "count." I think it was a typo when someone was entering words to block into the filter. It was just kind of funny, because I discovered it when I told someone, "Don't worry, you can count on me!" and it came out as "Don't worry, you can <bleep!> on me!" They had no idea what I was talking about, and it took a few entertaining minutes to hash out what was going on.
.com (Score:2, Funny)
Re:-gasp- Slashdot, too! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:MSN does some weiiiiiird things... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The genius that is Microsoft... (Score:3, Funny)
Says the person with a binary signature.
Re:The genius that is Microsoft... (Score:5, Funny)
"Mom, I met a great girl. She's not very nice, and she's not very pretty, but she started using Jabber after the latest MSN fiasco. You'll love her. I'll have her message you; oh, but you'll have to switch of of AIM first, mom."
Re:-gasp- Slashdot, too! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Blocked firefox.exe (Score:3, Funny)
Re:-gasp- Slashdot, too! (Score:5, Funny)
No, it's "Thor". We don't like Scandinavians.
They ought to censor.... (Score:2, Funny)