by Alec Muffett
Skype Support Request, Suggestions:
Hi,Please see the attached issue regarding my issue. I use Skype IM under MacOS, and am finding the use of individually cancelable, stacking, status popups to be a nuisance. Could you not have some sort of colour-coded call-status indicator, or perhaps flag individual outgoing messages with a green indicator (in the timestamp bar, perhaps) once they’ve been successfully sent.
Thanks!
Interesting, does the Mac version of Skype deliver spyware in the same way that some of the Windows versions are reported to ?
>does the Mac version of Skype deliver spyware
nope.
moreover a mate of mine is the chief security officer for skype, and he assures me that there is no spyware in skype, and i am inclined to believe him, especially given some of the hilarious stories that he’s shared, regarding the open-source-zealot-sourced and wannabee-uber-hacker-sourced FUD that’s out there.
have you a citation?
Having laughed at the /. crowd this weekend with their opinions about Skype I agree about the FUD.
However, there are two major problems which has meant that Oxford University has banned the use of Skype: Network bandwidth hogging and routing of other calls through the client.
Both of these really are caused when a client it labelled by Skype as a supernode. As you can imagine, with the University having such a big pipe, suddenly huge amounts of traffic will be diverted through a supernode on the network. This causes network degradation. Not only this but some of the traffic being routed could be commercial which means that it breaks the JANET rules.
And the really amusing thing is: from what I gather, it doesn’t work that way. That you source lots of traffic inbound/outbound does not make you a supernode.
Citation – no, just random Googling around and coming across a few folks saying they had Spyware arrive after installing Skype. I didn’t say it *did* do it, just that it was reported to. 🙂
Given the companies past history with Kazaa and spyware personally I wouldn’t trust their software near anything I had control over. Nothing personal, I also wouldn’t trust any silver disks that Sony produced now..
Chris
A few high-bandwidth connected sites here down under have had serious problems with Skype nodes generating and receiving huge amounts of traffic, again leading to discussions of banning it.
Source: private communications on an Australian security mailing list.
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