[Cryptography] [RNG] /dev/random initialisation

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Mon Nov 4 22:44:30 EST 2013


On Nov 2, 2013, at 5:23 PM, James A. Donald wrote:
>> Yet sending an actual evil url in a skype message has no apparent
>> consequences.

On 2013-11-03 13:16, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> If an evil URL appears in a Skype message, the intent is almost certainly
> to get someone to go to that URL.

And to prevent it, would need to check urls immediately, presumably 
against a list of known evil urls.

Instead the url is checked a long time after the message.

If one was perhaps trying to build a database of evil urls for 
subsequent censorship, one would at focus on urls that are spammed
in many messages.



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