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Skype Bug Sends Messages To Random Contacts
An anonymous reader writes "A bug has been discovered in Skype that sends users' private instant messages to other contacts whom the messages were never intended for. Skype has confirmed the issue and is working on a fix. 'We are aware that in rare circumstances IM's between two contacts could be sent to an unintended third contact,' a Skype spokesperson told Engadget. 'We are rolling out a fix for this issue in the next few days and will notify our users to download an updated version of Skype.'"
Why would I go to a theater to see a movie not shot at 24 fps, 48fps is just too fast for me.
Time to offend someone
Skype also sends crap to port 80 at systems where the skype client is or has been running.
This shows up as garbage log lines in Apache.
This has been going on for years and they never fixed it.
how to find out if that happened...just in case i am cheating on my wife
The lunatic is in my head
Is it just me or did the Skype bugs get more entertaining after the MS purchase?
Is Skype for Linux affected?
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
You may call that a bug.
the lonely lonely Skype program calls that "making friends".
Come on, sign it up for a dating service, it wants to make friends.
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Pool's closed.
To use the 5.0 series of Skype. I uninstalled it and went back to 4.2.0.187...........much nicer, thank you very much.
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It's called an open proxy scan, you dipshit. It's intentional.
He just admitted to running Skype. It's kind of a given.
"We are aware that in rare circumstances IM's between two contacts could be sent to an unintended third contact"
The wording is interesting. They are not saying its an error, they are just saying it was sent to an unintended receiver.
In other words: "Yes, we spy on you. But it wasn't our intention your friends know". I wouldn't be surprised if the next story is about skype having simular chat content filters as facebook showed recently.
The part wrong is the recipient, it's supposed to forward your messages to big brother, not your friends.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
Skype doesn't suck 10 kinds of ass.
Seriously, to actually have a graphics-level crash these days, you have to purposefully screw your own code up.
I've never had a single graphics crash besides 3 times where I done something a little obtuse in nature by making a Firefox window with Flash transparent.
It is such a tiny use-case that I am surprised they even fixed it after I tested it another 2 times and reported the bug to both of them.
Not with games, not a single Windows graphical error, nothing.
But ever since Skype 5 and up, forced to use the video frame crap interface at the top of every call now, every so often it just fails to initialize for god knows what reason and then of course draws to nothing. And even then, that normally wouldn't do anything but kill the program. No, Skype goes a step ahead of everyone else and brings the entire OS down.
It's not like I have the most generic system ever. Nothing special about it.
Sadly other idiots I know refuse to use much better things, so stuck with that crap.
So now I have to keep a constantly running script that has a hotkey that instantly terminates Skype the moment I notice the video frame hasn't initialized.
I literally have a 2 second window of opportunity to terminate it or crash.
Seriously sucks. Every version from 5 onwards. Nothing done about it either. I've all but given up even caring about helping them anymore.
Heard so many others with the issue as well, in fact pretty sure I saw someone mention it on here a good while back on the Skype protocol article.
Also, fix the constant "you have a message but you don't" bug! My god, most annoying bug in any program. More so than the crashing.
It's not just you.
A few days ago my friend couldn't register his friend on Skype because the second email field in the registration form persistently stayed disabled/greyed-out (tried it in every browser, on both Linux and Windows)...
A new product - Skype Chat Roulette!
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The old bag is going to some suffragette meeting tonight or something. Bring your Mighty Mouse costume... there will be plenty of time. Can't wait to eat your cheese!!
Could have something to do with Microsoft owning Skype...
People who use Skype despite its poisonous closed protocol deserve everything they get.
How about fixing the red exit button so that when I click it the application actually exits, and doesn't keep running in the background, so I have to exit it again, and the confirm?
And before I hear the whiners say:"That's what its supposed to do". I say inability to exit the application with one click is a fucking bug.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
A "bug", really? Or was it a "feature" that went slightly wrong? The mere existence of code [in Skype's codebase] that sends messages without the user's input is troublesome (although hardly surprising, considering the source).
gmail has been doing this for years, or is that just my gmail?
This is just the government bug feature. They are the third party who has requested access to your conversations and wants to be kept in the loop of what you say.
https://www.networkworld.com/community/node/81026?t51hb
The first set of hotfixes (Skype for Windows and Skype for Linux) to the Skype IM/chat bug are out – see http://blogs.skype.com/garage/2012/07/hotfix_for_multiple_skype_clie.html.