On Apr 21, 12:27=A0pm, snickers <m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The challenge is for either of you to open a Skype account and then
accept=
> the spiritual counsel I can offer. Are you two willing to face up to
your
> demons and cast tem aside? Post your user ids and a tiem to call and
I'll
> bring spiritual healing to you.
I can see why you prefer Skype, coward.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
Note this part:
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Skype provides an uncontrolled registration system for users with
absolutely no proof of identity. This permits users to use the system
without revealing their identity to other users. It is trivially easy,
of course, for anybody to set up an account using any name; the
displayed caller's name is no guarantee of authenticity
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So " snickers," what are you hiding?
More from the wiki site:
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Security concerns
A third party paper analyzing the security and methodology of Skype
was presented at Black Hat Europe 2006.[9] It analyzed Skype and made
these observations:
Skype keeps chatting on the network, even when idle (even for non-
supernodes. May be used for NAT traversal)
Assumes a 'blind trust' of anything else speaking Skype
Ability to build a parallel Skype network
Lack of privacy (Skype has the keys to decrypt calls or sessions)
'Heap overflow' in Skype
Skype makes it hard to enforce a (cor****ate) security policy
No way to know if there is or will be a 'backdoor'
Skype has been found to access BIOS data[10] to identify individual
computers and provide DRM protection for plug-ins.[11][12]
There is no assurance that Skype calls are not being intercepted.
Skype is owned by eBay, whose privacy policy is perhaps the most
liberal of any large cor****ation. EBay claims it goes above and beyond
what it is required to do by law, seeking out and giving police all
the information it stores about users excluding some financial data,
for which they require a subpoena[13].
[edit] Skype service issues
There have been complaints about Skype's poor customer sup****t.[14] As
of June 2007, Skype did not provide a way to contact customer sup****t,
offering indirect assistance through its web ****tal only. There have
also been criticisms of Skype blocking and disabling customer accounts
from using the SkypeOut service.[15]
While available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (i386 platform)
operating systems, there is no Skype version for the Palm OS, used in
mobile devices like the Treo 700p smartphone.
Skype has been criticized for bugs and delays in its Linux version.
[16]
Users of Skype on Mac OS X re****t poor audio quality when connecting
to Mac/Mobile clients, with newer audio engines showing more and more
problems.[citation needed] Audio quality when connecting from Mac to
Windows seem to be acceptable.
Skype cannot be used with VOIP analogue telephone adapters (ATAs).
Consequently, Skype users are limited to either using software phones
or expensive Skype only hardware. However, there are applications that
enable Skype users to connect to SIP providers [17].
SkypeOut has been criticized because it does not sup****t caller ID in
the United States, where people frequently reject calls from
unrecognized numbers.[18] The recipient sees "+0000123456" instead of
a real phone number. By contrast, the Gizmo service shows the user's
call-in number on caller ID.[19]
SkypeOut does not sup****t storing or (automatically) calling numbers
with extensions.[20] Instead, a user must call the number (without the
extension), wait for the call to connect and then manually enter the
extension. This means that many business customers in practice need a
separate contact list that includes extensions, causing the built-in
contact list to be of little use. This is by many customers considered
a fairly basic feature, and other phone services typically sup****t it
by allowing numbers to contain a symbol to represent a pause, as in
"1-800-123-4567 x54321" or "1-800-123-4567,,,54321" where 54321 is the
extension.
[edit] Compliance with the 'Communications Assistance for Law
Enforcement Act'
In May 2006, the FCC successfully applied the Communications
Assistance for Law Enforcement Act to allow wiretapping on digital
phone networks. Skype is not yet compliant to the Act, and has so far
stated that it does not plan to comply.[21]
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Oops Bobbie, you neglected to see this:
Skype incor****ates some features which tend to hide its traffic, but
it is not specifically designed to thwart traffic analysis and
therefore does not provide anonymous communication. Some researchers
have been able to watermark the traffic so that it is identifiable
even after passing through an anonymizing network[39].
Hmm, so you CAN'T stay hidden on Skype......
As Skype is a VOIP and not a chat program, your " challenge" is
baseless. You know I was referring to a chat room, not a VOIP. I doubt
you are THAT dumb, Bobbie.
On looking at some other websites about Skype, I found that there are
various serious security issues. It would be interesting if Bobbie
E.Larson uses Skype whether or not his activity was being "keylogged".
Gee I sure hope the people he's used don't include a hacker.
Moe
Eternal FOREVER KNIGHT fan
" A vampire cop? REALLY?"
http://www.boblarsonfanclub.tk/
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