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Re:Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone... by ungzd on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:26PM (#14268475)
Imagine the same situation with other "core" component of smartphone — browser. That you have TrueExplorer Pro that sends each visited url and form data to central server and has broken https. And that you can't replace it with Chrome/Firefox/Opera. It will be worse than custom caller.
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Re:Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone... by fs111 on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:28PM (#14268490)
It sends each URL already, they call it "safe browsing"...
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Re:Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone... by k2xl on Thursday May 04, 2017 @04:32PM (#14268517)
Actually, I don't think this is true - I think safe browsing is implemented via checking a bloom filter locally first and then checking google if a match is made on the bloom filter.
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Re:Something is wrong when the ‘telephone app’ on your phone... by fs111 on Thursday May 04, 2017 @07:18PM (#14269734)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Safe_Browsing "it depends"
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