Skype Security review

[denis at hancock.id.au (Denis Hancock)]

for an business internal use, consider trixbox with iax clients like zoiper
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Michael Miller <mike.mikemiller at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've not looked at skype as well for a while.  I remember some news
> some time ago about the Windows Client and maybe even the OS X client
> getting SIP support. I wonder if that was passed down to mobile phone
> Skype clients as well?  Anyone want to set up some testing?  We could
> do a video voice and then video conference to measure bandwidth usage.
>  I'm interested to see how much more efficant the skype protocol is vs
> SIP or IAX and IAX2.
>
> -mmiller
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Bugbear <gbugbear at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One other consideration, bandwidth, again just my two cents
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Bugbear <gbugbear at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The first thing I would do is evaluate the business need verse your
> > > ability to patch and manage it. Skype like any app has had and will
> > > have vulnerabilities in it. Also there are some settings for security
> > > and privacy that may or may not be controllable via registry, etc...
> > > Personally we block it but we also have other resources in place that
> > > allow people to get their job done (i.e. conference bridges,
> > > blackberries, etc...)
> > >
> > > A quick search on CVE DB
> > >
> > > http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=skype
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> > > Tim
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Sherwyn <infolookup at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I am interested seeing how this topic goes since we are faced with the
> same decision at work.
> > > > Infolookup
> > > > http://infolookup.securegossip.com
> > > > www.twitter.com/infolookup
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > > Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:54:56
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> > > > Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Skype Security review
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