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Hole in Skype reveals location and downloading habits

Posted on December 2, 2011July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Joan Goodchild reports:

Researchers have found a flaw in Skype, the popular Voice-over-Internet-Protocol service which allows users to make video phone calls and internet chat with their computers. The vulnerability
can expose your location, identity and the content you’re downloading. Microsoft, which owns Skype, says they are working on the problem.

The issue was uncovered earlier this year by a team of researchers from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), MPI-SWS in Germany and INRIA in France and included Keith Ross, Stevens LeBlond, Chao Zhang, Arnaud Legout, and Walid Dabbous.

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