Indeed, serves them well for using a) Skype and b) Windows. The two put together gave them this. Hopefully, some people will begin learning their lessons.
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Indeed, serves them well for using a) Skype and b) Windows. The two put together gave them this. Hopefully, some people will begin learning their lessons.
What about Skype? Why shouldn’t it also?
@Carlo: Skype has two different problems: a general one and a specific one. The general one is that not being free software (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) Skype suffers from all the defects of proprietary software, including being prone to bugs. But more specifically, Skype has a bad record of doing strange things. For example, it was discovered that Skype reads BIOS data (http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/02/07/0146245.shtml) which is really a way of pegging a specific traffic to a specific user/computer. Skype is, in fact, so dangerous that it has been banned for this reason by some French government agencies (http://www.01net.com/editorial/289360/telephonie/skype-banni-des-facs-par-la-securite-nationale/).
There are other alternatives out there which are free (Ekiga) or which are non-free (Google video) but which at least to not have such a dubious record. In the case of google video, all that is needed is a plugin to your browser and if that browser is free software, like FireFox, you are relatively safe, in particular if you are running it on top of a free operating system like GNU/Linux or BSD.
The worst solution is to combine various types of not-free software on top of each other as that increases the risks exponentially.
Happy New Year Carlo!!
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