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Typing 'http://:' Into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair
An anonymous reader writes: A thread at the Skype community forums has brought to light a critical bug in Microsoft's Skype clients for Windows, iOS and Android: typing the incorrect URL initiator http://: into a text message on Skype will crash the client so badly that it can only be repaired by installing an older version and awaiting a fix from Microsoft. The bug does not affect OS X or the 'Metro'-style Windows clients — which means, effectively, that Mac users could kill the Skype installations on other platforms just by sending an eight-character message.
Nuff said
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Yeah, pretty epic bug.
We use Skype for communicating with coworkers (we are a very small company, and all telecommute, so to speak), when the conversation doesn't warrant a phone call (on our IP phones).
But I'm still very tempted to try it. It's like a big red button that says DO NOT PUSH.
"I have no special gift, I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
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" It's like a big red button that says DO NOT PUSH."
You know that big button near the door in the data center, the one labeled "Halon?" That's French for "exit," so you push that to unlock the door and get out.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
I don't believe you. You are just trying to lull me into a sense of security to make me do it.
They took the indentation war too seriously.