This come on my radar a few days ago per Janice.

Skype reading one’s BIOS. Naturally nothing official from Skype that I have seen, but worthy to keep one’s eye on.

If this is all true (we will know once it is better documented, I guess) this then means that too many “confidential data” are located on one spot. Phonenumber, email-address, skype ID, bios-info and Motherboard number. Really. Talking about breach of privacy… if this data would be send to the Skype server. Now we have a situation whereby skype add-on could be made that can read this information and tunnel it somewhere.

On the other hand I think this does not mean a lot. Listen to this :

“ Every piece of software written for the last 10 years that needs to identify a session with better granularity than just the password (i.e. multiple logins) has done the same and nobody is getting a hard-on about them. It is also common to use nonrandom numbers present in your system to augment your passwords. Not a big deal. Somebody just wants to become famous.

Also noteworthy Facetime and Symantec both have inked deals to work with Skype on enterprise grade security. (Note I work for Facetime)…but not in that division- I have no idea.

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