Jul -- Computers and Technology: Skype's in ur BIOS, readin' ur data

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Posted on 12-28-07 05:01:21 AM

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And, as usual, some people are blowing this waaaaaaay out of proportion.

Yeah, it seems a bit mysterious and sneaky, but what evil things can they really do with your BIOS information?

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Posted on 12-28-07 05:20:34 AM

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Jul - Post #1949 - 12-28-07 12:20:34am

Why, they can uniquely identify your machine, and... uh... well there's got to be something terrible that allows them to do!

Yeah, it's not a huge issue, but I found it interesting. I tend to doubt companies have any good reasons to be doing things like this. As I understand it they were earlier found to be crippling their apps on AMD systems to make Intel look good...

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Posted on 12-28-07 05:29:10 AM

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big fucking deal

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Posted on 12-28-07 05:30:26 AM

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Originally posted by HyperHacker
Why, they can uniquely identify your machine, and...

I stopped reading right there.

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Posted on 12-28-07 05:34:09 AM

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I started skype.exe with Sysinternals filemon.exe running.
There is no 1.com file generated or executed by Skype on my machine.
Are you sure your skype.exe image has not been compromised by a virus?
Perhaps you should try to confirm your finding after reinstalling Skype?

And what is this nonsense about “their track record”?
Did you pull that comment out of your ass?

what a joke

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Posted on 12-28-07 05:38:45 AM (last edited by Xkeeper at 12-28-07 02:39 AM)

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also, doubleposting is cool

That post you linked is from
Febuary 6th, 2007

hello and welcome to last year

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Posted on 12-28-07 05:59:16 AM

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Clearly that is useful, non-dumb information. Next they'll be tracking all Pentium 3 users by their serial numbers! While it's a bit odd they're doing that, I get the picture it's either fake or silly... if it's really used for evil, the guy who runs GRC.com will probably have a field day with it. ____________________
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Posted on 12-28-07 06:49:37 AM

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Well, considering the "news" is nearly a year old, and I haven't heard anything about it since, I'm willing to bet Skype has removed that feature by now.

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Posted on 12-28-07 06:57:18 AM (last edited by HyperHacker at 12-28-07 03:57 AM)

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Jul - Post #1950 - 12-28-07 01:57:18am

Originally posted by Xkeeper
also, doubleposting is cool

That post you linked is from
Febuary 6th, 2007

hello and welcome to last year

Put your goggles on.

Originally posted by HyperHacker
old news apparently but I thought some of you might want to know.

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Posted on 12-29-07 12:37:56 AM

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Ω > U

Originally posted by Metal_Man88
Clearly that is useful, non-dumb information. Next they'll be tracking all Pentium 3 users by their serial numbers!...

Good thing I upgraded to a dual-core recently.

HAY IT'S SKYPE BASHING? SWEET! I HATE SKYPE BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE HIGH SPEED!

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Posted on 12-29-07 02:01:15 AM

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Originally posted by HyperHacker
Originally posted by HyperHacker
old news apparently but I thought some of you might want to know.

When it's something like this, outdated news is useless.

Then again, you're HyperHacker...

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Posted on 12-29-07 02:07:55 AM

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Jul - Post #1970 - 12-28-07 09:07:55pm

Well, I like to know when a company whose products I may/do use is doing something fishy, even if they did it last year. If they did sneaky things before they're liable to do sneaky things again. Sony is a great example of this. It's the same reason things like criminal records and background checks exist.

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Posted on 12-29-07 02:25:05 AM

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Originally posted by ∑ Ranko
HAY IT'S SKYPE BASHING? SWEET! I HATE SKYPE BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE HIGH SPEED!

I endorse this product/message/function.

The only real thing I can think of would be tracking which users use what? Meh. :/

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