Re: skype attack

2019-02-13 Thread Randy Bush
>> Was there meant to be a screenshot or some explanation of what would >> be denied here? > > sorry seems mailing list filters; so it was not my fault. try https://archive.psg.com/skype.jpg randy

Re: skype attack

2019-02-13 Thread Randy Bush
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:06:17 -0800, Hunter Fuller wrote: > Was there meant to be a screenshot or some explanation of what would > be denied here? sorry

Re: skype attack

2019-02-13 Thread Hunter Fuller
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:12 PM Randy Bush wrote: > > an update to skype will pop up and ask you > > > deny. you will have to deny repeatedly. there is no reason in the > world skype should have access to your icloud, contacts, ... Was there meant to be a screenshot or some explanation of what

Re: skype attack

2019-02-13 Thread Randy Bush
> Why not use jitsi meet? i am familiar with jitsi. it's fine. but i am trying to get research done, not teach/preach conferencing to a bunch of researchers. this was just a warning about an attack through a skype update; not meant as a discussion of conferencing technologies or an opportunity

Re: skype attack

2019-02-13 Thread Mattia Rossi
On 14/2/19 9:03 am, Randy Bush wrote: yep. some researchers are still stuck there for con calls. i hate it. Why not use jitsi meet? Free, Open Source, Standards compliant, WebRTC, an instance is hosted by IETF as well... It's actually perfect for researchers. https://jitsi.tools.ietf.

Re: skype attack

2019-02-13 Thread Randy Bush
> Perhaps (issue created on 6 Dec 2017) relevant: > > https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_accountms-skype_privacyms/skype-suggests-people-from-my-contact-list-to/d8cc03ad-fa15-4de7-8d96-51510615cff4 perms for contact list is one thing. perms for icloud account is another. this

Re: skype attack

2019-02-13 Thread David Conrad
Perhaps (issue created on 6 Dec 2017) relevant: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_accountms-skype_privacyms/skype-suggests-people-from-my-contact-list-to/d8cc03ad-fa15-4de7-8d96-51510615cff4 > On Feb 13, 2019, at 12:11 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > > an update to skype will pop up

Re: skype attack

2019-02-13 Thread Randy Bush
>> yep. some researchers are still stuck there for con calls. i hate >> it. > welp, at least the nsa can keep trac in real-time. the nsa is not in the researchers' threat model. this is not that kind of math. randy

Re: skype attack

2019-02-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:20 PM Randy Bush wrote: > > Y U USE SKYPE? > > yep. some researchers are still stuck there for con calls. i hate it. > > welp, at least the nsa can keep trac in real-time. they have that going for them.

Re: skype attack

2019-02-13 Thread Randy Bush
> Y U USE SKYPE? yep. some researchers are still stuck there for con calls. i hate it. randy

Re: skype attack

2019-02-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
Y U USE SKYPE? On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 3:11 PM Randy Bush wrote: > an update to skype will pop up and ask you > > > deny. you will have to deny repeatedly. there is no reason in the > world skype should have access to your icloud, contacts, ... > > randy

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Joly MacFie
I like http://zoom.us On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Alistair Mackenzie wrote: > Seems fine on mobile in the UK for me too. > On 21 Sep 2015 18:36, "Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)" wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:21:40 +0200 > > Marco Paesani wrote: > > > > > No solution >

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Alistair Mackenzie
Seems fine on mobile in the UK for me too. On 21 Sep 2015 18:36, "Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)" wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:21:40 +0200 > Marco Paesani wrote: > > > No solution > > http://heartbeat.skype.com/2015/09/skype_presence_issues.html > > Back for me (France): presence upda

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Gavin Henry wrote: >>> The same from Spain > > Desktop client on Linux in UK too. sometimes it takes longer than expected to install all the necessary software and hardware taps by the nsa folks.

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)
Hello, On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:21:40 +0200 Marco Paesani wrote: > No solution > http://heartbeat.skype.com/2015/09/skype_presence_issues.html Back for me (France): presence updated. Using Skype on Linux Paul pgpB6P6t2698f.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Gavin Henry
>> The same from Spain Desktop client on Linux in UK too. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. http://www.surevoip.co.uk OpenPGP (GPG/PGP) Public Key: 0x8CFBA8E6 - Import from hkp://subkeys.pgp.net or http://www.suretecgroup.com/0x8CFBA8E6.gpg

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Gavin Henry
>> The same from Spain Desktop client on Linux in UK too. -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. http://www.surevoip.co.uk OpenPGP (GPG/PGP) Public Key: 0x8CFBA8E6 - Import from hkp://subkeys.pgp.net or http://www.suretecgroup.com/0x8CFBA8E6.gpg

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Marco Paesani
No solution http://heartbeat.skype.com/2015/09/skype_presence_issues.html 2015-09-21 13:42 GMT+02:00 Karl Auer : > On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 10:32 +0200, Marco Paesani wrote: > > do you have some news about it ? > > There's a service status article on www.skype.com: > > Regards, K. > > Issues

RE: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Dan Gamble
http://heartbeat.skype.com says they've been intermittent since approx. 10:00UTC. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Marco Paesani Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 1:33 AM To: nanog Subject: Skype off line ?? Hi, do you have sone news about it ?

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 10:32 +0200, Marco Paesani wrote: > do you have some news about it ? There's a service status article on www.skype.com: Regards, K. Issues with Skype status and calling By My status Leonas Sendrauskas on September 21, 2015. Updated 11:00 UTC We have detected an issue that

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Max Tulyev
Original Message- >>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Max Tulyev >>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 1:27 PM >>> To: nanog@nanog.org >>> Subject: Re: Skype off line ?? >>> >>> For me yes, it is down for several h

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread zaphodb
:47, Murat Kaipov wrote: You ca use Google Hangouts, but I don't know about multiuser conference. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Max Tulyev Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 1:27 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Skype off line ?? Fo

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Max Tulyev
oun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Max Tulyev > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 1:27 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Skype off line ?? > > For me yes, it is down for several hours. > > BTW, is there any Jabber/XMPP client with similar usability? > > I need just scro

RE: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Murat Kaipov
You ca use Google Hangouts, but I don't know about multiuser conference. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Max Tulyev Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 1:27 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Skype off line ?? For me yes, it is dow

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Tremmel
> On 21.09.2015, at 12:35, Alejandro Acosta > wrote: > > The same from Spain Desktop client login not possible (Germany) Web client works fine Wolfgang

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Alejandro Acosta
The same from Spain El 9/21/2015 a las 6:00 AM, Pui Edylie escribió: > Reporting the same from Singapore > > Sent from TypeMail > > > > On Sep 21, 2015, 18:27, at 18:27, Max Tulyev wrote: >> For me yes, it is down for several hours. >> >> BTW, is there any Jabber/XMPP client with similar usabilit

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Pui Edylie
Reporting the same from Singapore Sent from TypeMail On Sep 21, 2015, 18:27, at 18:27, Max Tulyev wrote: >For me yes, it is down for several hours. > >BTW, is there any Jabber/XMPP client with similar usability? > >I need just scroll up to view all history and one click to join someone >to mul

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Max Tulyev
For me yes, it is down for several hours. BTW, is there any Jabber/XMPP client with similar usability? I need just scroll up to view all history and one click to join someone to multiuser conference in fact. On 21.09.15 11:32, Marco Paesani wrote: > Hi, > do you have sone news about it ? > Best

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 9/21/2015 03:37, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 9/21/2015 03:32, Marco Paesani wrote: Hi, do you have some news about it ? Best regards, I get a log-in screen. Do you have a fact to go with your question? Turns out the log-in screen is the last last sign or life--submitting username and passwo

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Aftab Siddiqui
Yes, its offline. http://heartbeat.skype.com/ Skype presence issues By Leonas Sendrauskas on September 21, 2015. Some of you may experience problems with Skype presence and may not see online status. We apologize for the inconvenien

Re: Skype off line ??

2015-09-21 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 9/21/2015 03:32, Marco Paesani wrote: Hi, do you have some news about it ? Best regards, I get a log-in screen. Do you ha a fact to go with your question? -- sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)

Re: Skype suspicious download activity ...

2013-12-09 Thread Jimmy Hess
Skype previously showed a warning message showing that the Skype API / Third party applications would stop working as of December 2013. I would bet there was a silent forceful update to the software... -- -JH On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote: > I just caught an alert on my

Re: skype shoots self in foot

2013-04-26 Thread Randy Bush
report bugs. they're great about fixes randy

Re: skype shoots self in foot

2013-04-26 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Apr 26, 2013, at 3:24 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >>> until widespread availability of webrtc, a bunch of us are using >>> jitsi for video, https://jitsi.org/ >> And last I tried it, it kept segfaulting on something dumb ;) > > try the nightlies > I'm trying the latest two nightlies -- two annoy

Re: skype shoots self in foot

2013-04-26 Thread Randy Bush
> This looks very useful. Would love to see mobile devices (e.g. > Tablets) supporting it. > I dislike having to put my stuff on servers just for sharing among my > devices. or for sharing between friends/co-workers. i just don't like putting my stuff on other people's servers, period. randy

Re: skype shoots self in foot

2013-04-26 Thread Rajiv Asati (rajiva)
> and while you are looking at escaping other big company servers, > check out http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html, real > peer to peer dropbox. This looks very useful. Would love to see mobile devices (e.g. Tablets) supporting it. I dislike having to put my stuff on servers just f

Re: skype shoots self in foot

2013-04-26 Thread Randy Bush
>> until widespread availability of webrtc, a bunch of us are using >> jitsi for video, https://jitsi.org/ > And last I tried it, it kept segfaulting on something dumb ;) try the nightlies >> and while you are looking at escaping other big company servers, >> check out http://labs.bittorrent.com

Re: skype shoots self in foot

2013-04-25 Thread JP
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:12:46PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: > skype seems to have made the latest 6.x incompatible with 2.8 (which > folk who care about screen real estate run) in that video no longer > works between them. > > until widespread availability of webrtc, a bunch of us are using > jits

Re: Skype in the Enterprise

2012-01-19 Thread Simon Lucy
Mike Gatti wrote: Hello Everyone, I wanted to get the groups opinions/thought on how you would or currently handle users wanting or using Skype in the enterprise. Recently what has brought this to light was the fact that our firewalls started to deny/shun users randomly from access to the int

Re: skype

2011-06-07 Thread Jorge Amodio
> Indeed, but "reverse engineered" and "Egyptian government snooping Skype > calls" are quite different. Whilst some people may have rather foolishly > relied on Skype for privacy, this is now not going to happen. I doubt it'll > make a big dent on the user base though. Skype privacy ? hehe, th

RE: skype

2011-06-07 Thread Leigh Porter
> From: Raymond Burkholder [mailto:r...@oneunified.net] > > > I love how this story was published AFTER MSFT purchased them ;-) > > > > http://plug2play.blogspot.com/2010/12/skypes-biggest-secret- > revealed.html > > reverse engineering hack was reported back in mid December. Indeed, but "reve

RE: skype

2011-06-07 Thread Raymond Burkholder
> I love how this story was published AFTER MSFT purchased them ;-) > http://plug2play.blogspot.com/2010/12/skypes-biggest-secret-revealed.html reverse engineering hack was reported back in mid December. > > > > On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > > > > > http://heartbeat.skype.com/

RE: skype

2011-06-07 Thread Leigh Porter
I love how this story was published AFTER MSFT purchased them ;-) -- Leigh Porter > -Original Message- > From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:t...@americafree.tv] > Sent: 07 June 2011 15:28 > To: Randy Bush > Cc: NANOG Operators' Group > Subject: Re: skype > >

Re: skype

2011-06-07 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > http://heartbeat.skype.com/ > > skype has been microsofted already. "small number of users" my ass. > probably 7/8 of the users i would see at this time are not on. On this topic, it has also been penetrated, by the Egyptian “Electronic Penetrat

Re: skype

2011-06-07 Thread Jorge Amodio
Is not working for me since early today, first the connection went down and later the application crashed ... I refuse to switch to MSN. I'm afraid that soon my monitor will explode if microsoft acquisition of NVIDIA goes through. BTW, after yesterday announcements at WWDC I wonder if there are s

Re: skype

2011-06-07 Thread Aftab Siddiqui
+1, My number is not working at all even the call not switching to voice mail. Regards, Aftab A. Siddiqui On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > http://heartbeat.skype.com/ > > skype has been microsofted already. "small number of users" my ass. > probably 7/8 of the users i wou

Re: Skype info

2010-12-22 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
I was actually going to say, you might as well have said it needs a new flux capacitor. Jeff On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Jack Carrozzo wrote: > "Creating new mega-supernodes as fast as they can!" > > Definitely using that in a meeting tomorrow. > > Cheers, > > -Jack > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010

Re: Skype info

2010-12-22 Thread Jack Carrozzo
"Creating new mega-supernodes as fast as they can!" Definitely using that in a meeting tomorrow. Cheers, -Jack On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Jeremy Parr wrote: > Skype downtime today > > Earlier today, we noticed that the number of people online on Skype > was falling, which wasn’t typical

Re: Skype info

2010-12-22 Thread Jeremy Parr
Skype downtime today Earlier today, we noticed that the number of people online on Skype was falling, which wasn’t typical or expected, so we began to investigate. Skype isn’t a network like a conventional phone or IM network – instead, it relies on millions of individual connections between comp

Re: Skype info

2010-12-22 Thread Jack Carrozzo
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: > > >> Details are on their blog: http://bit.ly/edtjxB %wget http://blogs.skype.com/ -O/dev/null --2010-12-22 20:45:36-- http://blogs.skype.com/ Resolving blogs.skype.com... 204.9.163.155 Connecting to blogs.skype.com|204.9.163.155|:80... fai

Re: Skype info

2010-12-22 Thread Paul Graydon
On 12/22/2010 10:24 AM, Tim Connolly wrote: Any word as to the root cause of the skype outage(s)? Tim Connolly Director of IT Details are on their blog: http://bit.ly/edtjxB Essentially the supernodes clients connected to started dying, so they're setting up temporary mega-supernodes whils