Re: Skype vulnerability or feature

["Kurt Seifried" <bt () seifried org>]

> Hi,
>
> I was fiddling a little bit with Skype when I discovered that I could
> login at the same time from two different terminals unlike other
> messengers such as MSN. In such a scenario if someone gets hold of
> your skype identity you would never know and he might just successfuly
> abuse your account again and again.
>
> Other things that I noticed were that an attacker would be able to
> accept calls directed to the authentic user. For e.g. the ring comes
> on both the terminals the user who accepts the call first get access
> while the second one gets missed call notification.

Or they are both authentic. It's one of the things I like about Skype. Some 
of us have more than one computer. This makes it possible to leave Skype 
running on say a workstation at home, and have it running on our laptop when 
we duck out for a coffee.

-Kurt


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