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Skype Addresses Visibility Concerns

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slow-on-the-uptake dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TechWorld is reporting that VoIP pioneer Skype has finally decided to buckle down from their startup mentality and address some of the concerns about the 'visibility' of Skype by network admins. From the article: 'Problems started around the time that the version 2.0 beta appeared last year, the moment when a handful of software engineers started to assess a troubling issue thrown up by the program's new and evasive design: it was incredibly hard to detect using perimeter security systems. Skype's unofficial explanation for its extreme stealthiness has always been that this was necessary to avoid telcos threatened by its business model from blocking it. While this presents no issues for a home user, using "invisible" software capable of making and receiving voice calls, opening instant messaging sessions and exchanging files on a corporate networks, caused some to ponder whether the ever-more-popular Skype hadn't just turned itself into a huge security risk.'"

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  1. Its ok! by vancondo · · Score: 4, Funny

    No Problem! They promise to DO NO EVIL!

    ..Oh, Thats not them?

    well, maybe if we asked them nicely?

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  2. Re:ports by houseofzeus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah I realised as soon as I hit submit but was to late to stop the post :p

  3. Re:Skype isn't a security risk... by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could just imagine the security risk Skype has. For some reason, some virus writer hacked into my computer then used Skype to call everyone on my contact list and play back a digital recording for selling underground viagra, then it used the contact list to instant message everyone to download this killer new application that you have to try out.

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  4. Re:Seems like a matter of framing the debate. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I remember similar concerns about SOAP when it was first being proposed (and no doubt many on here still refuse to use it)

    Are there THAT many French users on slashdot?

  5. Newsflash! by Progman3K · · Score: 2, Funny

    Companies are afraid of what their employees might say over a phone, what they might put in an envelope or carry out of the building.

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