In case you weren't joking, it seems the bug only affected the new version: > reported what they believed to be a zero-day vulnerability in Skype for Mac 5.x

In case you weren't joking, it seems the bug only affected the new version: > reported what they believed to be a zero-day vulnerability in Skype for Mac 5.x Of course, that doesn't rule out other security holes in 2.8.x.