On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:33 PM, John Andersen
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Carlos E. R.
wrote: After you have a look af the discussion on the wikipedia page, for instance, you will start to know what are the security issues of having skype in use in an organization.
These "serious issues" are due to the difficulty of filtering skype, and a disgruntled person cans end secret files out thru skype file transfer.
The same is true for any IM client with file transfer capability. Skype per se, poses no risk, it is quite secure. It is capable of being abused, just like anything else.
And ... being closed source, encrypting all the traffic, connecting to unknown nodes w/o even asking you (as well as over most of the restrictions you set with firewall), even not knowing for sure which the central server is - how do you know what and to whom it transfers? How can you trust it? Only because skype people say they do not copy your files? C'mon ... So, I use skype, it work ok for me ... but I run it from a virtual machine, which is set only for this purpose, w/o access to any of my files. Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org