Re:Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
by jacquesm on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:07PM
(#21364844)
That would guarantee absolutely nothing.
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Re:Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
by 0xffff2 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:11PM
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If the link was still blocked it would guarantee that Facebook is still eavesdropping.
Re:Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
by SlowRobotAhead on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:29PM
(#21365001)
Other guy was right. Think about this easy scenario
If (E2E_ENABLED) {
SkipCrawler();
SkipContentChecks();
}
Re:Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
by BubRoss on Saturday October 26, 2019 @02:54PM
(#21365492)
Again, it isn't to prove the encryption works, it is only a test that could prove that it doesn't work.
Re:Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
by SlowRobotAhead on Saturday October 26, 2019 @03:51PM
(#21365804)
Ah, yea, I got the argument backwards. I thought he was saying if content wasn’t blocked that it proved encryption worked. Can’t prove the negative.
Re:Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
by heynk on Saturday October 26, 2019 @02:12PM
(#21365259)
Yes, totally understood. I am just thinking in line with a different response that this could be an easy way to prove if they’re still snooping - not a guarantee that they aren’t.
Re:Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
by cmroanirgo on Saturday October 26, 2019 @03:25PM
(#21365650)
Agreed. There is nothing stopping the sender's app from parsing and reporting URLs in any and all content before e2e occurs... Even to FB servers