Skype Considered Harmful
Date Posted: December 15, 2005 09:09 AM
Author: Mel Beckman
A previous Dr. I. Doctor blog item (VOMIT: Diagnostic Tool Lets Hackers Target VoIP) discussed Voice-over-IP, noting that Skype was one of the few public VoIP services that encrypts its traffic. This was a good feature, providing a necessary layer of protection for Skype users. Unfortunately, since then several discoveries about Skype have led many network administrators to bar it from their networks.

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