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Sensationalist fear-mongering spread by a tabloid filesharing blog. If you want to take something from this, just make it "You can find out a person's IP if you
by aw3c2 15y ago
Sensationalist fear-mongering spread by a tabloid filesharing blog. If you want to take something from this, just make it "You can find out a person's IP if you know the Skype username and said person is online with Skype by making a hidden call (which Skype should probably prevent)". Skip this, move on.
- Zash 15y agoOr has been online sometime during the last 72 hours. But yes, not the best article.
- pyre 15y agoYou say fear-mongering, but the paper itself made most of the claims, and used linking Skype ID -> BitTorrent usage as an example. I would be more inclined to call this fear-mongering if the paper itself only said that the researchers linked Skype ID -> IP and then TorrentFreak editorialized that by claiming this was a threat to BitTorrent users (even though the original paper never -- or barely -- mentioned BitTorrent).