Skype is doing what???
Thanks to Jan for this breaking hot one
Somebody noticed that Skype Reads Your BIOS and Motherboard Serial Number. What PR-answer will we get now ?
Important enough to mention it here. Read this entry by myria.
If this is all true (we will know once it is better documented, I guess) this then means that too many “confidential data” are located on one spot. Phonenumber, email-address, skype ID, bios-info and Motherboard number. Really. Talking about breach of privacy… if this data would be send to the Skype server. Now we have a situation whereby skype add-on could be made that can read this information and tunnel it somewhere. [Read Jan's full post]
It send me off to the link for more. this is from myria
Skype Reads Your BIOS and Motherboard Serial Number
Users of Skype that run 64-bit versions of Windows like me probably have noticed that when starting Skype, the following dialog box appears:
The program or feature “\??\C:\Documents and Settings\Myria\Local Settings\Temp\12\1.com” cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows. Please contact the software vendor to ask if a 64-bit Windows compatible version is available. [Read Myria's full post]
97 comments already. This is going to be a hot topic. Skype's integrity as a trustable software solution is going to be hammered over this and they're already viewed askance by the enterprise world
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