Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room
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Re: Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room
#2Not sure about that elephant. Anyone using Skype still assuming their conversation is secure and private, is exceedingly naive.
Those who really need security and privacy, know not to use Skype.
Re: Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room
#3>Peer-to-peer connectivity also has some privacy issues; the exposure of IP addresses to peers was abused to perform denial of service attacks against victims, a problem that became distressingly common in the world of e-sports.
My brother who is a streamer, was DOSed because his IP was leaked via skype. This can be a huge pain to anyone with a public image and they have to use security by obscurity to maintain the integrity of their IP addresses. That and VPN/VPS etc. Which honestly my brother has no clue how to set up or use.
I'm not saying that you should use Skype, far from it. But at least they will be closing some of their attack vectors based on this and individuals won't be DOSed because they used skype and some script kiddy found a way to get their IP (which is super easy fyi).
Re: Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room
#4Let's be a little more dramatic. Instead of reading into what they didn't say, what if you... asked them and reported on that.
Re: Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room
#5Isn't the elephant in the room competing services : facetime, or facebook messenger, or whatever the google product is?
Re: Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room
#6What stable alternatives do we have for a pure P2P? Tox still doesn't persist group chats, yet.
I hope someone will come up with an implementation of Riffle.
Re: Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room
#7Not sure about that elephant. Anyone using Skype still assuming their conversation is secure and private, is exceedingly naive. Those who really need security and privacy, know not to use Skype.
>Those who really need security and privacy, know not to use Skype.
Everyone needs security, and privacy. If you're a company, you need security and privacy, and most will just assume that Skype provides it. And for the most part Skype provides them with the security they need. Most of the users of Skype just needs protection from snooping competitors and Skype provides that to a sufficient extend.
Honestly no one will care the slightest that Skype has become less secure, because in their eyes it hasn't.
But yes, most users for Skype are pretty naive, about security at least.
Re: Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room
#8It's also gotten extremely buggy. Can't get reliably through firewalls anymore, constantly orders messages wrong or doesn't show messages that were sent by a different client (even though they were received by the other party correctly), has much worse voice quality than Whatsapp, can't handover between networks, takes ages to load on older iPhones, the list goes on. I'd move away to Whatsapp in a heartbeat if they offered group calls and paid calls to phone numbers.
Re: Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room
#9Isn't the elephant in the room competing services : facetime, or facebook messenger, or whatever the google product is?
Which are all terrible in a business setting. Facebook is block at my employer, because most people doesn't seem to understand that they shouldn't be on Facebook during work hours. Also many companies doesn't exactly like it when you use a private account for business related communication.
Google Hangout is just horrible, and not only because I'm require to have an Google account (and I'm NOT using person accounts for work related communication). Whenever I get an invitation for a Hangout "call", I ask that they call the phone on my desk.
Skype works because people are just asked to create a Skype account using their work email. It's not perfect, but at least when someone leaves you can reset their Skype password and get the reset-password email.
Re: Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room
#10Isn't the elephant in the room competing services : facetime, or facebook messenger, or whatever the google product is?
I consider it unprofessional to rely on facebook at work. I guess facetime could work, but that is, as far as I know, apple only.