Comment by lionkor
3 years ago
Very effective at... what? I mean, they seem to not be able to tell the difference between a legit mastodon instance and a phishing site, so why would they suddenly be able to tell if it effectively blocked a site that was actually malicious?
Yes, blocking sites on a blocklist works very well. Whether those sites are legit or not doesnt matter at that point, to them, as they assume they all are malicious.
Do you see what I mean?
> ... so why would they suddenly be able to tell if it effectively blocked a site that was actually malicious?
The fact that there was one false positive does not imply there are no true positives.
Google crawls malware on sites all the time: https://security.googleblog.com/2009/10/show-me-malware.html...