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Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality



On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:

> FUD is easy. How about documenting yourself on how Safe browsing
> actually works? Hint: urls are _never_ sent to Google. The worst thing
> that Google can know is that the _hash_ of /some/ url you went to, has the
> first n bits matching the first n bits of the hash of one (or multiple)
> of the known malware of phishing urls. Nothing more.

Why doesn't it just download the full list and do checks client-side?

-- 
bye,
pabs

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