“Attackers, Trellix wrote, use the platform’s webhooks to pull data from victims’ computers and drop it into Discord channels run by the attackers.”
This is… annoying. I get the intent for malware, but honestly it’s a BS reason. The content will just be uploaded elsewhere. But what this will do is drastically lower their storage cost under the guise of… not even user safety, more “slightly inconveniencing malware writers.”
Yes, it’ll be uploaded elsewhere. That’s the whole point.
Discord doesn’t want to host any of this data, they don’t want to be connected to criminal activity. It makes sense.
Also, while it might slightly lower their storage costs (if the hackers move elsewhere), if you send a file to someone, it’ll still stay on Discord’s servers. Only difference is the link to said file - it’ll only be valid for a day, and then you’ll have to use a new one (in a way that’s probably transparent to the user)
The goal here is to make it difficult to link to things uploaded to discord from outside of discord. The malware reason is BS. If they wanted to curb malware it would be as easy as making it a nitro feature. What that doesn’t fix is all the people piggybacking on discord as a free CDN.
Discord isn’t even wrong for doing this. I just resent their dishonesty.
Not sure rolling it into Nitro would be worth the effort, I’d consider that quite complex personally
I wonder if McAfee changing their name to Trellix to escape how much the general public hates them will work better than Comcast rebranding as Xfinity.
probably about as well as Twitter becoming “X, formerly known as Twitter”
Yeah let’s keep that going here. From here on our whenever I see Trelix I will say “Trelix, the brand fomally known as McAfee.”
Or Evri, the brand formerly known as Hermes
or just call them mcafee, twitter, facebook, etc
Yes, but I like this because it ingrains in people’s heads that when they hear Trelix they should think McAfee, to make that connection. Like with Xfinity, they don’t want that connection made, they want people thinking “Oh I don’t have that crappy Comcast service, I have Xfinity”. I’ll be saying it this way to show people that they’re the same thing
fair point, maybe I’ll do that from now on
I don’t care what you say, Discord is terrible.
It’s just like IRC but with privacy violations and ads!
More like Mumble, but with privacy violations and ads
And without an ability to host the network yourself!
Interesting news but I don’t really get how this is self-hosted?
It’s an annoying change for anyone using discord to share files outside of it’s closed platform but doesn’t affect most people.
I wonder whether bridges for matrix have to be fixed or if they’re already editing messages bridged to matrix to the new url.
Depends on how it’s implemented. Anyone using a “media proxy” will see their discord bridged media probably fail to load (outside of possible caches) after a day. Anyone who has their bridge configured to reupload discord media to their homeserver should see no change.
