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alephnil on June 24, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Skype's Principal Architect explains why peer-to-p...

Except that they only checked HTTPS URLs, and most malicious URLs are on HTTP, which they apparently not checked.

bskap on June 25, 2013 [–]

Are you an expert in this ___domain or are you just parroting what the article said? I can think of at least one reason for a spam filter to contact the computer for an HTTPS request but not for an HTTP request- you want to find out what certificate they're using.

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