Skype Bug Sends Messages To Random Contacts

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 16, 2012 @05:59AM 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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also by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-16 06:02 · 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.