Skype Bug Sends Messages To Random Contacts 77
An anonymous reader writes "A bug has been discovered in Skype that sends users' private instant messages to other contacts whom the messages were never intended for. Skype has confirmed the issue and is working on a fix. 'We are aware that in rare circumstances IM's between two contacts could be sent to an unintended third contact,' a Skype spokesperson told Engadget. 'We are rolling out a fix for this issue in the next few days and will notify our users to download an updated version of Skype.'"
48fps is too fast (Score:5, Funny)
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Wrong story, Bob. You meant to post in this one [slashdot.org].
This one's about a Skype bug, and the one before it a recent achievement at the National Ignition Lab.
Re:48fps is too fast (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:48fps is too fast (Score:4, Informative)
Woosh, apparently. My bad ;)
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Re:48fps is too fast (Score:4, Funny)
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also (Score:4, Interesting)
Skype also sends crap to port 80 at systems where the skype client is or has been running.
This shows up as garbage log lines in Apache.
This has been going on for years and they never fixed it.
Did you actually have to call him a dipshit? (Score:2, Offtopic)
It's called an open proxy scan, you dipshit. It's intentional.
He just admitted to running Skype. It's kind of a given.
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It's called an open proxy scan, you dipshit
no its not, Skype listens on 443 and port 80 by default, just open your settings in Skype and see under "connections"
if you have a webserver on your gateway then this is where the garbage appears as skype clients try to connect to 80/443 on the public IP before choosing a NAT'ed port
dipshit
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When you don't have Skype listening on 80 and 443, other systems are still trying to connect those ports and are sending garbage, which appears in the Apache logs.
When Skype wants to run on port 80, it should encapsulate its traffic (at least the initial command to see if it is talking to another skype) in valid HTTP(S).
It makes no attempt to do so, which I consider a bug.
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It is hard to fix something controlled by application config.
Have they mentoned (Score:5, Funny)
how to find out if that happened...just in case i am cheating on my wife
Re:Have they mentoned (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Have they mentoned (Score:5, Funny)
Did you wake up with your penis still attached to your body?
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The GP's name is "FloydMan". I'm assuming that he's a dude.
Admittedly, I've been shaving since 2004, but... uh... not that closely.
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The above AC is referring to a previous slashdot story [slashdot.org]. It turned into another slashdot meta joke, so expect to see it a lot until people get bored of it.
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Was that woman's name, Lorena Bobbit? :P
Wait ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Is it just me or did the Skype bugs get more entertaining after the MS purchase?
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I used skype as a ghetto surveillence system and it quit working around February. My gut feeling was it was microsoft playing with the backend, then i found out they were converting to linux, so they were fucking it up. It isn't reliable anymore for very long term use, like 10 hours or more. I switched to yawcam and vlc and it is better in some ways.
Skype still cool though.
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Why don't you just aquire a fully fledged surveillence application in indefinite trial mode from indefinite trial bay?
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Could have something to do with Microsoft owning Skype...
Skype for Linux? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Skype for Linux? (Score:5, Funny)
It will be in about 2 years..
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Yes, and it has been fixed. Updates available now.
You call that a bug, lonely lonely Skype calls it (Score:2)
You may call that a bug.
the lonely lonely Skype program calls that "making friends".
Come on, sign it up for a dating service, it wants to make friends.
I absolutely refuse (Score:2)
To use the 5.0 series of Skype. I uninstalled it and went back to 4.2.0.187...........much nicer, thank you very much.
Spyware (Score:3, Insightful)
"We are aware that in rare circumstances IM's between two contacts could be sent to an unintended third contact"
The wording is interesting. They are not saying its an error, they are just saying it was sent to an unintended receiver.
In other words: "Yes, we spy on you. But it wasn't our intention your friends know". I wouldn't be surprised if the next story is about skype having simular chat content filters as facebook showed recently.
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The wording is interesting. They are not saying its an error, they are just saying it was sent to an unintended receiver.
In other words: "Yes, we spy on you. But it wasn't our intention your friends know".
I think it's clear that what they meant by that comment is that the 3rd party is not who you, the user, intended to receive the message. However, what's interesting to me is that this can happen at all. I'm not an engineer by any stretch, and perhaps I'm being too paranoid, but isn't it conceivable that the bug might not be that it's sending the IM to an some 3rd party on your contact list, but rather it's sending it to that 3rd party instead of to some log file on Skype's servers, or worse yet, some NSA
Half working as intended. (Score:2)
Re:Half working as intended. (Score:4, Funny)
sounds like (Score:5, Funny)
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A new product - Skype Chat Roulette!
It's not a bug...it's a feature...
honey... (Score:2)
The old bag is going to some suffragette meeting tonight or something. Bring your Mighty Mouse costume... there will be plenty of time. Can't wait to eat your cheese!!
How about the exit button? (Score:3)
How about fixing the red exit button so that when I click it the application actually exits, and doesn't keep running in the background, so I have to exit it again, and the confirm?
And before I hear the whiners say:"That's what its supposed to do". I say inability to exit the application with one click is a fucking bug.
feature or bug? (Score:2)
Hotfix for Skype IM/chat bug (Score:1)