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Firewalls scanning IM messages: Google as symbolic link

Here’s something I hadn’t seen before: I IM’d a friend of mine at a Big Company and the message got rejected because it included a URL. I have to suppose that it’s any URL that gets bounced, but who knows?

So the workaround? I sent the text for a Google query that returns the same url.

Further details: Discussing it with him, the logic seems to be that someone could send an employee a phishing link in an IM message.

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One Response to “Firewalls scanning IM messages: Google as symbolic link”

  1. David Coletta Says:
    May 10th, 2008 at 4:38 am

    Could be worse. At least his Big Company lets him use IM to the outside world. Lots of Big Companies just ban it outright.

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