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Hackers Can Silently Grab Your IP Through Skype. Microsoft Is In No Rush to Fix It (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 year ago by Debs to c/[email protected]

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A security researcher has found it’s possible to reveal a Skype app user’s IP address without the target needing to even click a link. Microsoft said the vulnerability does not need immediate attention.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Huh, the time machine must be off. This was news from a decade ago.

It's actually one of the main reasons we switched off Skype to Discord for most gaming socialization.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Is anyone still using Skype? Or is this a danger just to the last 10 people using it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How exactly would you stop this on a peer to peer app exactly, wouldn't you have to route traffic through a centralized proxy?

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