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276 points leonry | 1 comments | 19 Oct 24 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.27s | source

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Arubis ◴[19 Oct 24 17:24 UTC] No.41889117[source]▶

Best of luck to the author! My understanding is that anything that makes large file sharing easy and anonymous rapidly gets flooded with CSAM and ends up shuttering themselves for the good of all. Would love to see a non-invasive yet effective way to prevent such an incursion.

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1. lovethevoid ◴[19 Oct 24 20:27 UTC] No.41890531[source]▶

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For Firefox Send, it was actually malware and spearfishing attacks that were spread.

The combination of limited file availability (reducing the ability to report bad actors), as well as Firefox urls being inherently trusted within orgs (bypassing a lot of basic email/file filtering/scanning), was the reason it became so popular for criminals to use. Like we've seen in the spearfishing attacks in India[1].

[1]: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2020/06/india-hum...

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