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Skype Bug Sends Messages To Random Contacts

Posted by samzenpus on from the everyone-gets-a-message dept.

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.'"

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  1. also by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  2. Skype for Linux? by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is Skype for Linux affected?

    --
    My first program:

    Hell Segmentation fault

  3. Re:Wait ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I used skype as a ghetto surveillence system and it quit working around February. My gut feeling was it was microsoft playing with the backend, then i found out they were converting to linux, so they were fucking it up. It isn't reliable anymore for very long term use, like 10 hours or more. I switched to yawcam and vlc and it is better in some ways.

    Skype still cool though.