[HTTPS-E Rulesets] HTTPS Everywhere rule

Joshua Johnson joshua.s.johnson at gmail.com
Sat Jan 25 13:46:12 PST 2014


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Yan Zhu <yan at eff.org> wrote:

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> + pde, who knows more about the state of attachment filtering on that
> server.
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> Apparently it does filter out attachments of above a certain size.
>
> - -Yan
>
> On 01/24/2014 06:10 PM, Claudio Moretti wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
> > <dkg at fifthhorseman.net <mailto:dkg at fifthhorseman.net>> wrote:
> >
> > Is there any evidence that this list has been abused to transmit
> > malicious content to any of its readers?
> >
> >
> > No (and if there has, Gmail filtered them out for me) but I think
> > he's referring to the fact that for some reason the actual content
> > of the XML file is
> >
> > <ruleset name="phkr.de <http://phkr.de>"> <target host="www.phkr.de
> > <http://www.phkr.de>" /> *  <target host="twitter.de
> > <http://twitter.de>" /> *
> >
> > <rule from="^http://(www\.)?phkr\.de/" to="https://www.phkr.de/"/>
> > </ruleset>
> >
> >
> > Joshua, if that's what you meant, you shoud know that rules are
> > checked manually by the EFF staff (so not by everyone in the list)
> > before being added to the extension :)
> >
> > In this case, moreover, AFAIK having that target host does not
> > affect Twitter.de, because there's no actual rule that matches
> > Twitter.
> >
> > If you meant actual spam and malware, instead, there should be a
> > SpamAssassin+ClamAV combination on the server that scans all mail,
> > and if the mail is sent by someone not subscribed to the list it
> > goes into the moderation queue.
> >
> > Of course, it's impossible to catch everything (not even the best
> > spam/malware filters can do that) so I'd recommend a good antivirus
> > for those cases :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Claudio
>
> - --
> Yan Zhu                           yan at eff.org
> Technologist                      Tel  +1 415 436 9333 x134
> Electronic Frontier Foundation    Fax  +1 415 436 9993
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