Security by ‘Messing Up Your Chat Messages’
September 25th, 2008 by JuusoPosted in Game Development
I was chatting with two friends of mine and I was giving them a download link (www.myfancylink.com/folder/file.exe) via messenger.
Here’s how the conversation went after I had given the link to my friend…
I waited for some time and then asked, “downloaded it?”
Got response from friend: “Uh… downloaded what?”
Me confused: “The link I just gave you.”
Friend: “I got no link.”
Me: “I just wrote it? Hmm… what about now www.myfancylink.com/folder/file . exe”
Friend: “Okay, now I see it! Must be Vista/Messenger blocking it…”
I needed to put spaces to get that link to the other person.
www.myfancylink.com/folder/file.exe was not acceptable, but writing www.myfancylink.com/folder/file . exe (notice the spaces in file.exe) was.
Argh!
September 25th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Yeah I really really hate that about microsoft.
Also if you transfer a file in MSN and MSN considers it to not be a safe filetype, like and .exe, then it will still transfer it, but after transfering it, it will delete it, and without telling you about it.
The only sane thing would ofcourse be to just warn you and still give you the option of whether you want to transfer it or not.
MS are just retarded that way.
September 25th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Security paranoia will dominate the world an finally we’ll block ourselves :))))
September 26th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Just like in Vista where you now have to answer “yes I am sure” to almost any action you do. All this does, is that you get use to having to say yes constantly, and you end up just clicking yes all the time, without really noticing what you are answering yes to. So when there finally comes a case where you should have answered no, you don’t notice, but just answer yes.
The safety measures of MS are always retarded.
September 27th, 2008 at 9:31 am
You won’t believe this, but I ran into this issue for the first time a day or two after reading your blog. I immediately knew what the problem was!
September 29th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Heh :)